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Paris Sketchbook: 904*2

Object information

Current Location: In storage

Titles

Paris Sketchbook

Maker(s)

Draughtsman: Della Bella, Stefano

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Description

Covers bound in sheep skin or reversed calf with a blind tooled rectilinear design, back and front, sewn on 3 raised bands: the back numbered '3'. Contains 72 leaves, numbered in brown ink in the upper right corners 1 through 72. Eleven sheets are blank, recto and verso. The following pages have been extracted: one following f.11; three following f.20; one following f.21.

Notes

History note: Benjamin Fillon (1819-1881); undated, unprovenanced sale in France, lot 31; Hippolyte Destailleur (1882-1893); Charles Fairfax Murray (1849-1919)

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Given (1917-12) by Murray, Charles Fairfax

Dating

Production date: AD 1640

School or Style

Italian
Florentine School

Components of the work

Leaf Size Height 102 mm Width 215 mm
Cover Size Height 110 mm Width 228 mm

Inscription or legends present

  • Text: No: 70 / L: to: = D.60
  • Location: Inside front cover, upper left cover
  • Method of creation: Brown ink

Inscription present: in Della Bella's hand

  • Text: 25 Mars 1640
  • Location: Inside front cover, upper left
  • Method of creation: Brown ink

Inscription present: in Destailleur's hand

  • Text: 25 mars 1640
  • Location: Inside front cover, to the right of the above
  • Method of creation: Black chalk

Inscription present: inscription appearing to be a recipe for painting, but the handwriting is too minute and very to decipher

  • Text: ver[ni]ci di quadri / olio di noci in [giotto(?)] materiali / un pocho di cinabro qua[...] / noci e un poco di [Bianchi] / e mettilo al [...] / matrice in [canna] / e [...] di Borgonia; olio cotto / olio di noci / un poco di semi [...] / e un poco di [...] / e [...] B...
  • Location: Inside front cover, lower left
  • Method of creation: Brown ink

Inscription present: in Della Bella's hand

  • Text: ff ran [?] / tà di qua qui / olio di cone e un .....,, materia [?] / un poco di cinabro que un meta[?] / noci e un poco di ...... / [there follow three indecipherble lines]
  • Location: Inside front cover
  • Method of creation: MS label
  • Text: EX LIBRIS / H. DESTAILLEVR
  • Location: Inside front cover
  • Method of creation: Bookplate

Inscription present: the final line in graphite

  • Text: Album de Stefano della Bella, / Célèbre graveur italien / Les dessins qui composent cet album datents / de l'époque ou l'artiste ètait à Paris. On y / remarque plusieurs vues et croquis pris dans / cette ville et dans les environs. B. Fillon / 45 croquis de la Bella.
  • Location: Flyleaf
  • Method of creation: Brown ink

Inscription present: stuck to left hand edge of flyleaf, recto

  • Text: DE LA BELLE (Etienne) / Ecole italienne (1610-1664.) / 31. ALBUM DE CROQUIS ed de dissins. Année 1640, in-4 oblong, / rel. en peau de mounton. (Rel. anc.) / Trés-bel album de croquis et dessins à la plume exécutés avec beaucoup / d'esprit et de talent par Stefano della Bella, le célèbre graveur italien. / Les dessins qui composent ce recueil datent de l'époque ou l'artiste était à / Paris; on y remarque plusieurs vues et croquis pris dans cette ville et dans les / environs. Citons des vues de Charenton, le gibet de Montfaucon, une vue des / Tuileries avec le portrait de l'artiste, le pont de St-Cloud, l'église de Boulogne- / sur-Seine, un bastion de la Bastille, la porte St-Bernard, Notre-Dame, la porte / de l'hôtel de Nesles, Montmartre, le Luxembourg, le château de St-Maur, etc. / Quelques-uns de ces dessins ont été gravés par Silvestre. / Ce précieux volume provient de M. BENJAMIN FILLON.
  • Location: Flyleaf
  • Method of creation: Printed catalogue excerpt
  • Text: 3
  • Location: Outside back cover
  • Method of creation: Ink

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Identification numbers

Accession number: 904*2
Primary reference Number: 36173
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Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Thursday 20 May 2021 Last processed: Friday 8 December 2023

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Paintings, Drawings and Prints

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