Anonymous
Clement VII c.1523-1527
Engraving. Cassiano Type A mount | 6.6 x 6.1 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 809524
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An engraving of Clement VII: portrait in profile right, framed within a circular border with Latin inscription. This print is part of a series (se RCIN 809507) and it is lettered around the portrait: "CLEMENS. VII. PONT. MAX".
The print formed part of an album of portrait prints assembled by Cassiano dal Pozzo in Rome and described in an early nineteenth-century inventory of prints in George III's library as Portraits of Popes and Cardinals. The album was arranged hierarchically from popes to cardinals and thence on to archbishops and bishops, and within each category chronologically (starting from St Peter, according to tradition the first pope). The album was dismantled later in the nineteenth century and the prints that were retained were integrated with others in the collection.
For more information see Mark McDonald, The Print Collection of Cassiano dal Pozzo. I: Ceremonies, Costumes, Portraits and Genre, 3 vols, Royal Collection Trust 2017, part of The Paper Museum of Cassiano dal Pozzo: A Catalogue Raisonné, cat. no. 1154.Provenance
From the collection of Cassiano dal Pozzo (1588-22 October 1657); inherited by his brother, Carlo Antonio dal Pozzo (1606-1689); sold by Carlo Antonio's grandson to Clement XI, 1703; acquired by Cardinal Alessandro Albani by 1714, from whom purchased by George III in 1762
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Medium and techniques
Engraving. Cassiano Type A mount
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6.6 x 6.1 cm (sheet of paper)
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Clemens VII Pont.Max.
