Pen and brown ink, ink smeared with the finger, 210 x 322 mm. Verso: Three female figures in a landscape, pen and brown ink (with smears), yellow patch at the upper left. Ruled framing lines in brown ink. Drying marks along all four sides. Watermark: Foolscap. Chain lines: 17–25 mm. Numbered in the lower right corner, in pen and brown ink, 1816 (Sparre) and 68 (struck out). Mark of the Royal Collection (Lugt 1638).
The identification of the subject of the recto as Vertumnus and Pomona is doubtful. What Kruse interpreted as a spade next to the woman is more likely an arrow or a spear, and the scene might represent Apollo and Coronis, or more likely Cephalus and Procris. That the figures on the verso are studies for Vertumnus and Pomona cannot be doubted.
The large tree on the left, the figures and the area to the right of them are extensively reworked in darker ink, possibly by the same hand. The figures on the verso are also reworked. The hand is the same as in the previous two drawings, and in the following one. [Magnusson, Dutch Drawings no. 352]