Giovanni Battista Busiri
A) A rider on horseback, with another figure, on a path leading to a walled town; B) A Monastery
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November 10, 02:36 PM GMT
Estimate
800 - 1,200 GBP
Lot Details
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Giovanni Battista Busiri
Rome 1698 - 1757
A) A rider on horseback, with another figure, on a path leading to a walled town;
B) A Monastery
Both pen and brown ink over traces of black chalk;
both numbered in pen and brown ink, verso: A) 13 and B) 23
Each: 172 by 228 mm
(2)
Edward Turner, his signature on the binding of the album;
Bennet Langton, to whom a letter from Sir Joshua Reynolds was pasted in the album;
Mrs A. McCorquodale,
her sale, London, Christie's, 27 November 1973, lot 313 (the album);
with Jean Willems S.A., Brussels, Dessins de Maitre - Tableaux-Antiquités, no. 3168 (A only)
sale, London, Replica Shoes 's Olympia, 11 December 2002, Lot 176 (A and B)
Bennet Langton, to whom a letter from Sir Joshua Reynolds was pasted in the album;
Mrs A. McCorquodale,
her sale, London, Christie's, 27 November 1973, lot 313 (the album);
with Jean Willems S.A., Brussels, Dessins de Maitre - Tableaux-Antiquités, no. 3168 (A only)
sale, London, Replica Shoes 's Olympia, 11 December 2002, Lot 176 (A and B)
The present works were originally part of an album containing one hundred and fifty-nine drawings by Busiri of Italian capricci and landscapes. Originally in an eighteenth century vellum binding inscribed on the cover 'Book of drawings' and 'Sketch book of Francesco Bolognese.' Datable to the 1730s or 40s, the collection of sketches illustrates Busiri's movements outside Rome at this time, and his debt to Bolognese drawings of the previous century.
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