An engraving of Clement VII: portrait of the Pope seated, with his left arm resting on the chair arm. In the upper right corner, the coat of arms, possibly of the Vatican. This is a plate from Onofrio Panvinio's XXVII Pontificum maximorum elogia et imagines … (Rome 1568). The engraving style of all the portraits in Panvinio's publication is very similar and it is possible they were all made by Philippe de Soye, who signed the portrait of Pius V. This print is lettered along the bottom: "CLEMENS. VII. PAPA. FLORENTINVS."

The print formed part of an album of portrait prints assembled by Cassiano dal Pozzo in Rome and described in an early nineteenth-century inventory of prints in George III's library as Portraits of Popes and Cardinals. The album was arranged hierarchically from popes to cardinals and thence on to archbishops and bishops, and within each category chronologically (starting from St Peter, according to tradition the first pope). The album was dismantled later in the nineteenth century and the prints that were retained were integrated with others in 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. 1153.