Signature: Signed with artist's monogram and dated, upper right, in brown ink: "MLF 1570" [ML in ligature]

Inscription: Inscribed by artist, upper right, in brown ink: "Altte Marcke"

John Evelyn (British, 1620–1706 Wotton, Surrey); J. H. C. Evelyn (British, 1876–1922); C. J. A. Evelyn (British, 1904–1976); Hon. Sherman Stonor (Stonor Park, Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire); Sotheby's, London, March 15, 1966, lot, 3; Private Collection, London ; Vendor: Hill-Stone, Inc.

Fischer 1570, 2

Erik Fischer, Ernst Jonas Bencard, Mikael Bøgh Rasmussen Melchior Lorck. Melchoir Lorck, Copenhagen, 2009, fig. no. 1570, 2, vol. 1, p. 28, ill.

Peter Ward-Jackson "Some Rare Drawings by Melchior Lorichs in the Collection of Mr. John Evelyn of Wotton, and Now at Stonor Park, Oxfordshire" The Connoisseur, April 1955. 135, 1955, cat. no. 53, p. 93.

Erik Fischer Melchior Lorck Drawings from The Evelyn Collection at Stonar Park, England and from The Department of Prints and Drawings, the Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Copenhagen. Copenhagen, 1962, cat. no. 67, pp. 60, 115 (ill, ill.

Stijn Alsteens, Freyda Spira Dürer and Beyond: Central European Drawings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1400-1700. New York, 2012, cat. 40 (entry written by Freyda Spira); p. xiv (introduction written by Stijn Alsteens), ill.