This sheet was formerly folio II of a sketchbook, the flyleaf of which is inscribed Libro 24 and dated 24 October 1567, which was unbound in 1971 (see also no. 1980.13:2). On the basis of inscriptions, Elen suggests there must at one time have been at least thirty-seven such drawing-books by Cibo, most of which would appear to have been composed of single quires.
Watermark: none.
Folio 11 from a sketchbook, the flyleaf of which is inscribed Libro 24 and dated 24 October 1567, which was dismembererd in 1971.
Inscribed at lower right, in pen and brown ink, "41".
Valls, Rafael, former owner.
Spector, Stephen, 1946- former owner.
Elen 1995, 360-62, no. 81.
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Nineteenth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1978-1980. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1981, p. 215.
Exhibition of Old Master Drawings, P. & D. Colnaghi and Co., London, 1971, no. 12.