Album of drawings The Marriage of the Virgin

Green leather bound album, green cardboard cover. In gold on the back: "Sketches of varij autorj".
The album was bound in the years 1870-1877

The drawing has been identified as a preparatory study for Federico Zuccari’s frescoes (1582-1583) on one wall of the chapel of the Dukes of Urbino at the Sanctuary of the Holy House of Loreto (cf. Simonetta Prosperi Valenti Rodinò, “I disegni di Federico Zuccari per Loreto”, in Mario Di Giampaolo and Giulio Angelucci [ed], Disegni marchigiani dal Cinquecento al Settecento, atti del convegno (Monte San Giusto, 22-23 maggio 1992), Florence 1995, pp. 47-55).