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Cipriano Moresini c.1547-49
Engraving | 15.2 x 11.2 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 670115
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An engraving of Cipriano Morosini. A bust length portrait, with short-cropped hair and bearded. This print belongs to Doni's engraved Medaglie. The presence in the border of books with the names Bartolus (Bartolo da Sassoferrato) and Ruinus (Carlo Ruini, 1456–1530) suggests Morosini was a jurist. This print is lettered around the portrait: "M. CIPRIANO MORESINI GENTILHVOMO VENETIANO."; along the bottom: "Enea Vico da Parma inu. f. // Medaglia del Doni".
The print formed part of an album of portrait prints assembled by Cassiano dal Pozzo in Rome. Described in an early nineteenth-century inventory of prints in George III's library as Italian Poets, Historians &c:a, the album comprised 159 prints. It was dismantled later in the nineteenth century and its contents sold during the early twentieth century, when only a few of Cassiano's foreign non-royal portrait prints were retained for the collection.For more information see Mark McDonald, The Print Collection of Cassiano dal Pozzo. I: Ceremonies, Costumes, Portraits and Genre, 3 vols, Royal Collection Trust 2017, part of The Paper Museum of Cassiano dal Pozzo: A Catalogue Raisonné, cat. no. 1579.
Provenance
From the collection of Cassiano dal Pozzo (1588-22 October 1657); inherited by his brother, Carlo Antonio dal Pozzo (1606-1689); sold by Carlo Antonio's grandson to Clement XI, 1703; acquired by Cardinal Alessandro Albani by 1714, from whom purchased by George III in 1762
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15.2 x 11.2 cm (sheet of paper)
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