Ludovico Pozzoserrato
Watermark: fragment of figure of angel in a circle. (cf. Briquet 659-60). Watermark, beta radiograph. angel, circle, figure. 144866wm1_1957_10_WM_beta.jpg
Watermark (countermark): Letters "BB" with trefoil on vertical stick. Watermark (countermark), beta radiograph. "BB", stick, trefoil. 144866wm2_1957_10_CM_beta.jpg
Model for Georg Hoefnagels's engraving of the city of Lyons in the famous book of city views by G. Braun and F. Hogenburg, Civitates orbis terrarum (1572-1618, Part 5, no. 19. Fig. 81).
Formerly attributed to Anonymous Fabriczy, second half of 16th cent.
Lettered for topographical identification throughout, in somewhat darker brown ink, "A" through "Q" (no J). Inscribed on verso, at lower left, in an old hand, in black chalk, "Joos de Mompere".
Williams, Hanbury Charles, former owner.
Adams, Frederick B., Jr., comp. Ninth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1958 & 1959. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1959, p. 94-95 (Flemish School, 1550-1600)
Pierpont Morgan Library. Review of Acquisitions, 1949-1968. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1969, p. 129 (as Anonymous Fabriczy).
Stampfle, Felice, with the assistance of Ruth S. Kraemer and Jane Shoaf Turner. Netherlandish Drawings of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries and Flemish Drawings of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries in the Pierpont Morgan Library. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1991, p. 62, no. 106, repr.