Martydom of St. Lawrence

Signature: l.center, brown ink "Lafage".

Inscription: Upper right corner, in pen and brown ink, "67".
Lower right corner, in graphite "(A.Pond)".
Upper left verso, in graphite "804".
Center verso, in pen and black ink "The Martydom of St Lawrence [underlined] / The figure pushing St Lawrence on to the gridiron with a fork is taken from the / design by Baccio Bandinelli engraved / by Marc Antonio and appears to prove the truth / of what Dupey the (illeg.) [Grez ?] says that / Lafage could draw from memory any / figure that he had once looked at attentively".
Lower left verso, in graphite "Sandby = L.#2112 / Pond = L#2038 (158?) / 308".
Lower left corner verso, in graphite "12". [circled]
Lower left verso, in graphite "B666".
Lower center verso, in graphite "From Sandy and Pond's Collection".
Upper leftcorner verso, in graphite "5". [underlined]

Marking: Stamped lower left corner in black ink, collector's mark of Paul Sandby (Lugt 2112).
Stamped lower right corner in brown ink, collector's mark of Arthur Pond (Lugt 158).

Arthur Pond (British), Possibly his sale, Langford, London, April 25 - May 3 1759, possibly lot 27: "Eleven by Wyck, Rousseau, Dubois, Le Fage, and others"; or lot 29: "a battle by La Fage"; Paul Sandby (British)