JACOPO ZUCCHI
Florence c. 1540–1596 Rome
The Foundation of Cosmopoli (?)
Inscribed, lower right, 39
Pen and brown ink, brown wash, over black chalk, on white paper, within black ink framing lines
10 x 13 ¹⁄₁₆ inches
254 x 332 mm
Provenance
Pierre Crozat (Lugt 3612, his numbering, 39), Paris
Anonymous sale: London, Christie’s, 6 July 1976, lot 34, illustrated (as Stradanus)
Ralph Holland (1917-2012), Newcastle upon Tyne,
Thence by descent (sale: London, Sotheby’s, ‘Galleria Portatile’: The Ralph Holland Collection, 5 July 2013, lot 244, illustrated
Exhibitions
Newcastle upon Tyne, Hatton Gallery, Italian Drawings, 1525-1750, 1982, cat. no. 14, plate II B, illustrated (catalogue by R. Holland)
Literature
F. Härb in Disegno, giudizio e bella maniera, Studi sul disegno italiano in onore di Catherine Monbeig Goguel, Milan, 2005, p. 110, cat. no. 59, p. 111, illustrated
THE MORGAN LIBRARY AND MUSEUM, NEW YORK