A river landscape with a medieval castle in the background, a traveller on horseback in the foreground (recto); A landscape with a battle scene and various sketches (verso)

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Stefano della Bella (Florence 1610-1664)
A river landscape with a medieval castle in the background, a traveller on horseback in the foreground (recto); A landscape with a battle scene and various sketches (verso)
black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown and grey wash (recto); pen and brown ink (verso), watermark posthorn and shield with W
8¼ x 13 in. (209 x 326 mm.)

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Lot Essay

This and the following two lots are from the same collection as a group of drawings by Stefano della Bella sold in these Rooms on 5 July 2005, lots 46-71. Largely taken from three albums, many of the drawings are connected to prints published in Paris in 1641-51 by Langlois, Silvestre, Mariette and Jombert, suggesting that they were already in France by this date.

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