Alexander the 6th [art original].

Description

Title: Alexander the 6th [art original].
Published / Created: [not after 1806]
Publication Place: England?
Abstract: Portrait of Pope Alexander VI; half length, in profile to the right; wearing a red mozetta and a red zucchetto trimmed in white (the Camauro).
Description: Title inscribed below image, in ink in a contemporary hand.
Unsigned; artist unidentified.
Place and date of production based on the country of residence and death date of Richard Bull, who owned and likely assembled the album in which this drawing was found.
Formerly laid in with one other drawing at page 91 in an album containing 402 pages, bound in red morocco leather with single gilt ruled line; spine stamped in gold "Drawings." Now disassembled and matted separately: Bull, R. Scrapbook of drawings. [England], [not after 1806].
Matted together with one other drawing to 49 x 37 cm.
Original case shelved separately.
Provenance: Merian drawings purchased by Richard Bull from the collection of Doctor Fothergill (1712-1780). Album purchased by W.S. Lewis at the Julia Swinburne and Lady Jane Ashburnham sale, Sotheby's, lot 426, 20 July 1954.
Extent: 1 drawing : oval image 7.7 x 7 cm, on sheet 8.6 x 7 cm
Language: English

Genre: Portrait drawings
Ink drawings British 18th century
Watercolors British 18th century
Material: pen and ink and watercolor, varnished ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Alexander VI, Pope, 1431-1503,
Subject (Topic): Popes
Subjects: Alexander VI, Pope, 1431-1503
Popes
British > 18th century
Bull, Richard, 1725-1806 > Ownership

Access: Public
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Citation: Alexander the 6th. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.