Lot Essay
A preparatory study for one of the plates in Virtù et Arti Essercitate in Bologna etched by Francesco Curti (circa 1603-1670) after Tamburini. Two drawings from the same series are in American private collections, M. Cazort and C. Johnston, Bolognese Drawings in North American Collections 1500-1800, Ottawa, 1982, nos. 56 - 7, illustrated