Lot 1: FOLLOWER OF PAOLO UCCELLO

FLORENCE 1397 - 1475
A LION CONFRONTING A DRAGON
Pen and brown ink;
bears inscription on the backing sheet: Tocco - in - penna di Domenico Beccafumi/ detto il macarino, Pittore Sanese del Secolo XVI.
146 by 221 mm

A. M. Hind, Early Italian Engravings, reprint, Nendeln 1970, vol. I, p. 214, under no. 4;
J. Byam Shaw, Review: 'Early Italian Engravings' by A. M. Hind,' The Burlington Magazine, vol. 74, no. 434, May 1939, p. 246, D.III.4;
B. Degenhart and A. Schmitt, Corpus der Italienischen Zeichnungen, 1300-1450, Berlin 1968, vol. I, 2, p. 399, p. 401, reproduced fig. 533, p. 402, note 23

Mrs. Erwin Rosenthal, Zurich;
Sale, Bern, Klipstein and Kornfeld, 1960, lot 119 (as Italian School, second half of the 15th Century);
Sale, London, Christie's, 11 December 1979, lot 32 (as North Italian School, circa 1470)