The drawing is derived from an engraved composition of a Street Scene with Various Buildings, Colonnades and an Arch, known in three versions, of which two bear Bramante's name (although Hind considers any relation to that architect as doubtful).
Inscribed at lower left, on drawing and on made up corner, in pen and black ink, "le maire pousin".
Hickman, R., former owner.
Selected references: Fellows Report 1964, 88-89 (as Lombard School, early sixteenth century).
Adams, Frederick B., Jr., comp. Thirteenth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1963 & 1964. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1964, p. 88-89 (as Lombard School, early sixteenth century).
Pierpont Morgan Library. Review of Acquisitions, 1949-1968. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1969, p. 151.