Lot 63
  • 63

Giovanni Franceso Grimaldi

Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 GBP
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Description

  • Giovanni Franceso Grimaldi
  • River landscape with a boatman and ruined castle
  • Pen and brown ink;
    bears attribution in pencil, lower right: Il Bolognese, and William Esdaile's inscriptions on the mount: 101_2 Ld Spencer 1811.I/Bolognese (recto), P/No.19/Lord Spencer's coll. 1811 WE P49_N 101 (verso)

Provenance

George John, 2nd Earl Spencer (L.1530),
probably his sale, London, Thomas Philipe, 10-17 June 1811;
William Esdaile (L.2617), on his mount with his inscriptions (see above);
bears printed label on verso of mount: BROUGHTON;
sale, London, Sotheby's, 6 July 2006, lot 56

 

Condition

Laid down on Esdaile's mount. The paper is very mildly foxed, although the marks are faint . There is a little surface dirt near the margins of the sheet, but otherwise the drawing is in very good condition.
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