16th century
36.1 x 27 cm (14 3/16 x 10 5/8 in.) frame: 53.3 x 41.9 x 3.2 cm (21 x 16 1/2 x 1 1/4 in.)
Henry Constantine Jennings (L. 2771). Thomas Lawrence (without his mark); [Samuel Woodburn]; William II, King of Holland, his sale, Amsterdam, De Vries, Roos, and Brondgeest, 12 August 1850, lot 153, as "attributed to Michelangelo;" sold to Samuel Woodburn, his sale, London, Christie's, 4 June 1860, lot 137, bought by [dealer?] Enson. Sir John Charles Robinson (L. 1433); his son, Charles Newton Robinson, 1914 (presumably inherited in 1913 from his father). John Hemming Fry; Noel Monod, Greenwich, Conn.; sold to Fogg Art Museum for $1200, 1955.
Brown ink, incised, on cream antique laid paper inlaid into incised off-white antique laid album page; verso: brown ink, incised
16th centuryItalianBlack chalk on off-white antique laid paper; verso: black chalk
15th-16th centuryItalianBrown ink, brown wash, black chalk on off-white antique laid paper
16th-17th centuryItalianBrown ink and brown wash over graphite on off-white antique laid paper, squared in graphite
16th centuryItalianBrown ink and brown wash over black chalk on cream antique laid paper; verso: brown ink and black chalk
16th centuryItalianMetalpoint and white gouache on gray prepared antique laid paper
15th-16th centuryItalianBlack chalk on buff antique laid paper
16th centuryItalianRed chalk on cream antique laid paper
16th-17th centuryItalianBrown ink, gray-brown wash and graphite on cream antique laid paper
16th centuryItalianBrown ink on cream antique laid paper, squared in red chalk, laid down overall on cream antique laid decorated mount of John Barnard (?)
16th centuryItalianBlack and red chalk on off-white antique laid paper
16th-17th centuryItalianBrown ink, brown wash, and white gouache over traces of black chalk on light tan antique laid paper
16th centuryItalian