FRANCESCO DI GIORGIO MARTINI | RECTO: A STUDY IN HALF ELEVATION OF THE LEFT HALF OF THE SOUTH-WEST OR CITY FAÇADE OF THE ARCH OF TRAJAN AT BENEVENTO; VERSO: TWO ENLARGED DETAILS OF THE ARCH

FRANCESCO DI GIORGIO MARTINI
Siena 1439 - 1502
RECTO: A STUDY IN HALF ELEVATION OF THE LEFT HALF OF THE SOUTH-WEST OR CITY FAÇADE OF THE ARCH OF TRAJAN AT BENEVENTO;
VERSO: TWO ENLARGED DETAILS OF THE ARCH

Pen and brown ink over traces of black chalk (recto and verso);
inscribed in pen and brown ink on the inscription panel of the Arch: INP CAESARI DIVI NERVAE filio / Nervae Traiano Optimo AVG / Germanicho Dacico Pontif max tris / Potest XVIII IMPVIT cos VI pp / fortissimo Prinzipi senatus PQR and inscribed underneath the coffers of the vault: Mezo
281 by 182 mm; 11 by 7¼in

Condition Report:
Window mounted into album page. Overall in very good condition. Light staining around the edges of the sheet, otherwise sheet relatively free from staining. Pen and ink remains strong and vibrant.

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Provenance:
Cassiano dal Pozzo's Museo Cartaceo,

Carlo Antonio dal Pozzo,

thence by descent,

Cosimo Antonio dal Pozzo,

Pope Clement XI,

Cardinal Alessandro Albani,

King George III,

Richard Dalton,

John MacGowan,

Charles Townley,

John Townley (his sale to Thorpe 10/11 May, 1865 £5. 5s),

William Stirling Maxwell;

Sale, London, Phillips, Old Master Drawings: To include an important group of Drawings from The Pozzo/Albani Collection, 12 December 1990, lot 318 (as Studio of Antonio da Sangallo, Il Vecchio)