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663Visual Documentation case of Polidoro, sets of prints of the other inventions which he included in his libri di disegni. These drawings are related to the Sorokko album, a collection of thirty-seven drawings of inventions for tableware that are very similar, and in a number of cases identical to those in the various Strada albums. For that reason they have been attributed to Jacopo Strada, but they are certainly not in his own hand, nor in that of his son Ottavio [Figs. 13.49–13.50.].57 In fact they are of a far higher degree of finish and sophistication than most of the drawings/cop- ies in Jacopo’s and Ottavio’s albums. The use of identical sources nevertheless suggests a connection: it is perfectly possible that they were commissioned by Strada for himself or for one of his patrons from an as yet unidentified, Italian draughtsman, for instance when he was in Venice in the late 1550s or in the late 1560s.58 57 On the Sorokko Album, see Lawrence 2007; a selection of the drawings were offered for sale at Sotheby’s in 2010, as Jacopo Strada and workshop (Old Master Drawings 2010, pp. 50–74, cat. nrs. 40–61. I am grateful to Cristiana Romalli of Sotheby’s for providing me with photographs and discussing these drawings with me. I have discussed them more in detail elsewhere (Jansen 2014, pp. 164–168). 58 bsb-hs, Cod. Icon. 199, attributed to Strada in a Munich library inventory of 1582. This scenario justified Sotheby’s attribution of the Sorokko drawings to ‘Jacopo Strada and workshop’. Figures 13.49–13.50 Circle or ?workshop of Jacopo Strada, design for an octagonal platter or perhaps a ceiling; drawings in pen and wash from the Sorokko Album.