Lot 566: JOSEPH NOLLEKENS

A GROUP SKETCHBOOK PAGES WITH FEMALE FIGURES AFTER THE ANTIQUE


All black chalk;a number inscribed with locations in brown ink: Villa Medici [crossed out] / De, Villa Borghese, Negroni, Justiniani, Tivoli / ortro Pitt [?]; one inscribed in black chalk on the base of a statue: MYRTOESSA and in brown ink, upper right: Do;some bear numbering in pencil on old mount: 7, 29, 60, 65, one bears inscription: Villa negroni

Thirty studies circa 7 by 5 in, 185 by 120 mm; two circa 5 by 3 in, 120 by 75 mm (32)

Probably Nollekens' Estate sale, London, Evan's, 4-5 December 1823, as part of lots 232-262;
probably Mrs Russell (neé Palmer) of Curzon Street, London,
by whom sold, London, Christie's, 20-22 March 1847, as part of lots 212-262;
with the Heim Gallery, London, from whom purchased

See note to lot 422.