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"inscription": "by artist, upper left and upper center, in brown ink: concia d[el]. Mga[a superscript] fior d[i]. lisa. d[i]e. q[uinta]. .7. d[ie]. 9.re 1567: ; lower right, in brown ink: 34",
"inscription_translation": "extended inscription, \"concia del maggiore fior di lisa. die quinta 7(?) die novembre 1567\", i.e. \"curing [drying] of the greater cornflower on the fifth day 7(?) of November 1567.\"",
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"description": "part of sketchbook inscribed \"Libero 24\" and dated October 1567, folio A6",
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"description": "with P & D. Colnaghi & Co. London, 1971; as Messer Ulisse Severino da Cingoli, Exhibition of Old Master Drawings, 1971, no. 11; [part of sketchbook dissembled by Colnaghi].",
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"description": "Gherardo Cibo was more botanist than professional artist. The compiler of at least five volumes of dried plant specimens collected in the Marches (central-eastern) region of Italy, Cibo made drawings in order to record the habitats where he collected plants. He executed this drawing in the field, annotating at upper left the dried cornflower (concia fior da liso) he had gathered on the spot. Though Cibo learned to draw landscapes at an early age when he visited Northern Europe, this sheet reveals his knowledge of Florentine and Venetian models.",
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