Lot 1: POMPONIO  AMALTEO

MOTTA  DI  LIVENZA  1505  -  1588  SAN  VITO
A  PAIR  OF  DRAWINGS,  EACH  WITH  FIGURES  OF  TWO  APOSTLES
Quantity: 2
Both  pen  and  black  and  brown  ink  and  brown  wash,  heightened  with  white,  on  blue  paper,  top  corners  cut;
both  bear  numbering  on  the  backing  card,  in  brown  ink,  upper  right:  3  and  4
75  by  85  mm  and  75  by  78  mm

Edinburgh, The Merchant's Hall, Italian 16th-Century Drawings from British Private Collections, 1969, no. 68, album pages 3 and 4, page 4 reproduced pl. 9 (as Giovanni Antonio da Pordenone)

T. Mullaly, 'Italian Sixteenth-Century Drawings in Edinburgh', The Burlington Magazine, CXI, October 1969, p. 628, p. 629, page 3 reproduced fig. 70 (as Pordenone);
C. Cohen, I Disegni di Pomponio Amalteo, Pordenone 1975, p. 81, reproduced figs. 61 and 62;
K. Andrews, 'The Drawings of Giovanni Antonio da Pordenone', review of Cohen's book, The Burlington Magazine, CXXIII, February 1981, pp.103-104 (as Pordenone);
J. Bean, 15th and 16th Century Italian Drawings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 1982, pp. 22-23

Sir Peter Lely (L.2094);
William Gibson (his inscription on the original album: K. / 17 drawing [sic] of / Purdenone);
Jonathan Richardson Sr. (L.2184),
his posthumous sale, London, 9 February 1747, lot 37: 'one a pocket book with seventeen drawings of Pordenone';
Thomas Worsley,
by descent to Sir Marcus Worsley, Bt., Hovingham Hall, Yorkshire, until 1977;
Private Collection, Jersey