Follower of Jacques Callot

Watermark: none visible through lining.
This album incorporates three distinct groups of drawings, all by markedly different hands. It begins with twenty-four drawings in the manner of Jacques Callot mounted on twenty-one leaves. Next are seven leaves with line drawings after Abraham Bloemaert's series of hermit saints, Sacred Hermitage of Anchorets (Sacra Eremus Ascetarum), Ad sacrum speculum, engraved by Boetius Adamsz. Bolswert in 1612. The third group is a series of thirty-eight sheets depicting scenes from the Life of Christ, beginning with the Annunciation and ending with the Resurrection. These are possibly copies after an extant series, and are summarily executed bordering on amateurish. The volume's spine reveals that the initial batch of twenty-four drawings were once considered to be by Remigio Cantagallina (ca. 1582-1635).