Giovanni Bonatti painting a caricature portrait of Giov. Paolo Tedesco: 2581

Materials used in production

Black chalk

Components of the work

Support composed of paper

Techniques used in production

Drawing (image-making) : Black chalk on paper

Inscription or legends present

• Text: Salvator Rosa
• Method of creation: Faded red ink

• Text: Rosa

• Text: ducento e dodici

• Text: 212

• Text: Bonati (in Richardson's hand)
• Location: Mount

• Text: Giovanni Bonati caricando Gio. Pauolo Tedesco. / Thus written with an old hand on the back. / Gio. Bonati was of Ferrara, commonly called Giovannino di Pio, / because That Cardinal took him under his Protection, a Boy, / which he continued to his Death, because of the great In: / dustry & other excellent qualities he continually ex: / :certed, that made him universally lov'd, & employ'd in Im: / :portant works. / He died at y age of 46 only, 1681. / Gio Paulo Scor, a German, was a reasonable Painter, & / hath been employ'd by Alex. VII in his Summer Palace of Mon: / tecavallo. He was made an Academician ano. 1635 / Honest Bonati don't seem to have spar'd Himself in his / Caricatures, any more than his Friend Scor. (in Jonathan Richardson Junior's hand)
• Location: Verso

• Text: The above is in the handwriting of / Jonathan Richardson, from whose collection the drawing / passed to that of Sir Joshua Reynolds (in another hand)
• Location: Verso

• Text: Thomas H. Barker's
• Location: Verso

• Text: Lot 564
• Location: Backing
• Method of creation: Red ink

Related exhibitions

• Seventeenth Century Italian Drawings

Identification numbers

Accession number: 2581
Primary reference Number: 7124
Lugt: 2170
Lugt: 2997
Lugt: 2364
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Associated departments & institutions

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