Agostino Carracci (Bologna
1557-Parma 1602)
Innocent IX c. 1591
Engraving. Cassiano Type A mount | 25.6 x 20.0 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 809545
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An engraving of Innocent IX: portrait of the Pope with fur-trimmed cap, mantle and hood, his arms resting on parapet. This print is lettered on the plaque: "INNOCENTIVS IX / PONT. MAX. / PATRIAE SPLENDOR / BONORV. REFVGIVM / AC / REIPVB. CHRISTIANÆ / ALVS ET GAVDIV. / CREATVS / III. CAL NOVEM. / M.D.XCI."; at the lower right: "A.C F."
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. 1174.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 176
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Engraving. Cassiano Type A mount
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25.6 x 20.0 cm (sheet of paper)
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