Estimate € 1,800 - 2,000
Sold € 1,500
Auction: 23 October 2018 at 15:00
Italian artist, late 17th century - early 18th century A travelling notebook of drawings illustrating a walking trip throughout the Roman antiquities of Provence Album, 4to (mm about 235x175, cc. 42), laid paper with watermark: quadruped within a circle. Quire collation: cc. I, 1 (12-1), 2 (16), 3 (2-1), 4 (14), modern page-numbering in pencil in the superior margin (readable the range 2-67). Limp vellum, front cover reinforced with board, loose quires, in the album rectangular paper label with traces in pencil (heavily rubbed). "Nolet" in ochre ink on the cover back. Drawings mainly in pen and brown ink, brush, grey wash.
Estimate € 1,800 - 2,000