FOLLOWER OF PIETRO TESTA | Death of a hermit saint surrounded by putti

Lot Closed

September 20, 02:25 PM GMT

Estimate

1,500 - 2,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Property of a Nobleman

FOLLOWER OF PIETRO TESTA

Death of a hermit saint surrounded by putti

Pen and brown ink over black chalk;

bears numbering in pen and brown ink, lower right, on the album page: 61

240 by 384 mm (drawing)

633 by 480 mm (mount)

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Formerly in a portfolio inscribed 'S.2' with the bookplate of Edward, Earl of Powis (Edward Clive, 1st Earl of Powis of the third creation (1754-1839)),

thence by inheritance to his second son, Robert Henry Clive (1789-1854), of Oakly Park, Shropshire, M.P. for South Shropshire,

thence by descent to Robert Windsor-Clive (1824-1859) and his son Robert George, Baron Windsor (1859-1923), for whom the earldom of Plymouth was revived in 1905,

thence by descent