Description: Horisontal and vertical folds, small hole at bottom centre, tears along upper border. No watermark.

Inscribed in pen and brown ink on the tree-trunk: EX.PRAE/ CEPTO/ D.O.M.D./ PER/ ACACI/ UM/ ET/ OLYMPI/ UM/ PATREM, on the base ANTONI MARIANI PATREM, on the base ANTONI MARIANI PATER, and SIMULACRUM. APOLLINIS/ STATUERUNT; at the lower left "fol. 7" and "..to...ACTIACUS(?)"; at the lower right, cut off at the edge, "eleatur liber sic corrigit.ac.../ANTONI MARIANI PATER E/ idem liber T(?). Inscribed in a different ink and hand at the left centre "saffaryk(?)"

Drawing of a sculpture, "Apollo Chitadoros", once in the gardens of Cardinal Cesi (now in Charlottenhof, Potsdam). Other drawings are in Codex Pighianus, with the same inscriptions but lacking the mask on the Lyre, and in Trinity College, Cambridge, without the inscriptions but with the mask.

On the right is the fourth side of the altar (cut by the border) reproduced on 717/1973 (Cat. 447). A small cross on both drawings marks the connection. There is a certain difference in style but this seems due to a very skilled reworking in pen and slightly darker ink; the contours have been filled in, including hair and facial traits, and there is some added hatching on the chest, arms and legs. The original drawing must have been faded, much like the pages of Dosio´s Florence album. [Bjurström, It. Drawings, cat. no. 448]

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