William Young Ottley (Thatcham 1771 – London 1836), The Birth of St. John the Baptist, after Andrea Pisano, Baptistery (South Door) Florence. Pen and brown ink, 113 x 127 mm. Alberto & Alessandra Di Castro. Copyright © Master Drawings and Sculpture Week

Inscribed in brown ink, above, in Ottley’s hand : ‘on one of the Gates to the Baptistery Florence’ inscribed in brown ink, below, in Ottley’s hand: ‘from the Design of Giotto. Andrea Pisano’

Literature: Hugh Brigstocke, ‘William Young Ottley in Italy’, in The Walpole Society, 2010 Wakefield, no. 22, p. 386, ill. p. 446.
Andrea G.De Marchi, Revelations, Discoveries and Rediscoveries in Italian Primitive Art, Florence 2013, no. XLV – p. 100

David Pierre Humbert de Superville (The Hague 1770 – Leiden 1849) St. Paul surrounded by Virtues, after Ambrogio Lorenzetti [Lippo Vanni], Palazzo Pubblico, Siena. Graphite, pen and grey and brown ink, 370 x 250 mm. Alberto & Alessandra Di Castro. Copyright © Master Drawings and Sculpture Week

Inscribed in black chalk, below: ‘nella sala della Signoria – Sienna / Ambrogio Lorenzetti.’

Literature: Hugh Brigstocke, ‘William Young Ottley in Italy’, in The Walpole Society, 2010 Wakefield, no. 90, p. 435-6, ill. p. 468
Andrea G. De Marchi, Revelations, Discoveries and Rediscoveries in Italian Primitive Art, Florence 2013, no. XLIV, p. 99

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