Description: Pen and brown ink, grey wash, heightened with white, on blue paper, 315 x 368 mm. Traced for transfer. Ruled framing lines in black ink. Laid down. Signed in the lower right corner, in pen and brown ink, N. Verkolje. Mark of the Royal Collection (Lugt 1638). Numbered on the mount, in pen and brown ink, 1985 (Sparre).

This and the following drawing of nymphs and satyrs, the same size and in the same technique, both traced for transfer, were probably engraved in mezzotint. Nagler’s list of engravings mainly includes lascivious motifs. [Magnusson, Dutch Drawings no. 511]

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