Description: Studies of ears and profile heads. Pen and brown ink.

This and the preceding number have been attributed by some to Annibale (Donald Posner, Julien Stock, Catherine Johnston and, with some hesitation, Clare Robertson) and by others to Agostino (Babette Bohn, Catherine Loisel, Nicholas Turner). The verso, like the following number, is covered with playful scribbles of profiles and ears. There are close parallels in two sheets at Windsor, one of which is drawn in at similar calligraphic style, the other, representing a foot and sandal, drawn in one uninterrupted line. There is a similar sheet with male and female heads and a foot in Landesmuseum, Darmstadt. They have all been attributed to Agostino. The scene with a satyr and a goat dancing [recto] occurs in the background of a Grimaldi drawing at Chatsworth. [Bjurström, It. Drawings, cat. no. 1361 (verso)]

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