Album No. 27 belongs to a series of small albums that collect sketches, ink drawings, pencil drawings, or watercolors taken from life by Massimo d'Azeglio (1798-1866) in a chronological arc that moves from 1844 to 1848. Most of the notebooks are kept at the Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna and relate to the generous bequest by his nephew Emanuele Tapparelli d'Azeglio, in 1873, to the City of Turin. Among these, album 27, for some sketches with a strong Risorgimento theme – in fact representing the battle of Monte Berico – was immediately destined for the nascent National Museum of the Italian Risorgimento; the album, thus, together with other works by d'Azeglio, has been part of the Museum's collections since the first permanent installation at the Mole Antonelliana in 1908.
