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 and white gouache on cream antique laid paper, with brown ink infill and partial framing line in graphite on the mount, laid down overall to cream antique laid paper
16th centuryItalianBlack and white chalk on dark cream antique laid paper
16th-17th centuryItalianBrown ink on cream antique laid paper
16th-17th centuryItalianBrown ink over red chalk on cream antique laid paper; verso: brown ink and wash
16th centuryItalianBrown ink, incised, on cream antique laid paper inlaid into off-white antique laid album page; verso: brown ink, incised, off-white antique laid album page also incised
16th centuryItalianPastel on blue antique laid paper, with irregular surface glaze (gum arabic?), laid down
16th centuryItalianBlack chalk on off-white antique laid paper; verso: red chalk and brown ink
16th-17th centuryItalianMetalpoint on blue-gray prepared antique laid paper; verso: red chalk
16th centuryItalianBrown ink on off-white antique laid paper
16th centuryItalianBrown ink over black chalk (?) on off-white antique laid paper
16th centuryItalianRed chalk on off-white antique laid paper; verso: black chalk
16th centuryItalianBlack chalk on white antique laid paper
16th centuryItalian