The Roman Album
1775-1780
Artists
Description
Folio album in brown quarter leather binding, brown marbled boards. Composed of 19 folios, the first 5 of which are blank. 29 drawings and tracings are mounted on the rectos of the next 14 folios and the recto of the final free endpaper. The album pages and the drawings mounted to them were removed from the album in April 2003 because the pages and the album were disintegrating. All of the pages were loose in the album. At an earlier date the pages were numbered in the order in which they were in the album.
Dimensions
52 x 34.7 cm (20 1/2 x 13 11/16 in.)
Provenance
David sale, A. N. Pérignon, Paris, April 17, 1826, and following days, part of no. 66 (withdrawn); second David sale, Hôtel des Ventes, Paris, March 11, 1835, part of no. 16; acquired by "baron J. (Jules?) David"; Henri, vicomte de Béranger; acquired from him through Martin Birnbaum by Grenville L. Winthrop, January 1936 (Fr 30,000); his bequest to the Fogg Art Museum, 1943.
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