Lot 86
  • 86

* Francesco de Mura Naples 1696 - 1782

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Description

  • Francesco de Mura
  • an allegory of america
  • bears inscription in brown ink, lower left: UII
    pen and brown ink and grey wash, over black chalk, within an inscribed oval 

Provenance

bears unidentified (illegible) collector's mark, recto;
W.G. Constable, by whom given to the present owner in 1960
 

Catalogue Note

This drawing has been thought to be a study related to one of four Allegories of the Continents in the Royal Palace, Naples.