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Pages in the Retinue of the Polish Ambassador; Two Turkish Horses

Stefano Della Bella
1610-1664

Pages in the Retinue of the Polish Ambassador; Two Turkish Horses

1633
6 3/16 x 17 3/8 inches (157 x 441 mm)
Pen and brown ink, over lead or graphite, on laid paper.
IV, 179b

Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.

Notes
A design for della Bella's 6-plate etching of "The Entry of the Ambassador of Poland into Rome." A related drawing for the same section is in the Teyler Museum, inv. M 002; see see van Tuyll, Italian Drawings of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries in the Teyler Museum, 2021, no. 34.
Associated names
Robinson, J. C. (John Charles), Sir, 1824-1913, former owner.
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department