Watermark: Fragment of a circle with a bird inside Watermark, beta radiograph. 145028wm_1981_39_WM_beta.tiff
Verso, probably by another hand: "Studies of Hands", in red chalk, a copy after Aegidius Sadeler (ca. 1555-ca. 1609).
Formerly attributed to Girolamo Muziano (1532-1592); Marten de Vos (1532-1603); Francesco Allegrini (ca. 1615-after 1679).
The drawing is a copy of the engraving by Aegidius Sadeler (ca. 1555-1609?) (Hollstein, XXI, p. 8, no. 5) after the design by De Vos for "The History of Saul and David". The original drawing by De Vos is bound together with his other designs for the series in the Jacobs album in the Library's collection.
Inscribed at lower left, in graphite, "16". On verso, in brown ink, "Vorrei che tu mi scrivessi qual che"(trimmed).
Muziano, Girolamo, 1532-1592, Formerly attributed to.
Vos, Maarten de, 1532-1603, Copy after, Formerly attributed to.
Allegrini, Francesco, approximately 1620-approximately 1679, Formerly attributed to.
Sadeler, Aegidius, approximately 1555-1609?, engraver.
Glaser, Curt, 1879-1943, former owner.
Ash, Ernest, Mrs. former owner.
Selected references: Fellows Report 1984, 296-97; Stampfle 1991, 112, no. 247 (as copy after Maerten de Vos).
Stampfle, Felice, with the assistance of Ruth S. Kraemer and Jane Shoaf Turner. Netherlandish Drawings of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries and Flemish Drawings of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries in the Pierpont Morgan Library. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1991, p. 112, no. 247.