Don Godard

Pen and brown ink

Over black chalk

27.7 x 19.3 cm

Inscribed verso: "Don Godard Procureux General de Citeaux"

Publication : "La Tentazione Comica, Tre secoli di satira e  caricatura tra le Marche e Roma",    Fabio

               Santilli, 2006, p.86, ill.

Framed with anti UV glass and acid free paseepartout

Ghezzi was enormously prolific as a caricaturist, when he died, his widow inherited a number of large albums. Three such caricature albums were in the possession of Carlos de Bourbon, King of Naples from 1734 to 1759, who then became King of Spain, Carlos III (1759-1788). The collection was passed on to his son Carlos IV (1788-1808). They were then in the possession of Joseph Bonaparte, King of Spain (1808-1813) who lost them at the battle of Victoria on June 21st, 1813 to the Marquis von Wellesly, who later became the Duke of Wellington