Inscription: At bottom center, monogramed "AD" in pen and brown ink, in the manner of Albrecht Dürer. On the mount: at lower left center, inscribed "Albert Durer. 1470-1528" in pen and brown ink; at lower left center, inscribed "from vol 1st No 4" in pen and brown ink. Verso: at upper center, inscribed "Q 52" in pen and brown ink (possibly Richardson mark, see Lugt 2983-2984)

Marking: At lower left, a collector's paraphe (?) "12 R X" in brown ink (in ligature, extremely close to Lugt 2171)

Earls of Pembroke (British, Wilton House, near Salisbury, Wiltshire); Sotheby's, London, July 5–6, 9–10, 1917, lot 477 (as Dirck van Staren); Knoedler and Co., New York; Vendor: Robert Langton Douglas (British, London 1864–1951)

Julius S. Held Notizen zu einem niederländsichen Skizzenbuch in Berlin in Oud Holland. 50, 1933, p. 283 (as by an anonymous Antwerp mannerist).

Sandford Arthur Strong Reproductions in Facsimile of Drawings by Old Masters in the Collection of the Earl of Pembroke and Montgomery at Wilton House. , London, 1900, cat. 31, part III (attributed to the Master of the Star [Dirck Vellert]), ill.

Sotheby's, London, Earls of Pembroke [Pembroke sale] Catalogue of superb prints, drawings, pictures, and armour from the historical collections at Wilton House, Salisbury, the property of the Rt. Hon. the Earl of Pembroke & Montgomery [July 5-6 & 9-10, 1917]. July 5-6, 9-10, 1917, cat. no. 447.

Bryson Burroughs "Drawings from the Pembroke Collection" Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin. vol. 14, no. 6, New York, June 1919, p. 138 (as by the artist Dirck Vellert).

Max J. Friedländer Die niederländischen Manieristen. , Leipzig, 1921, cat. no. 11, ill.

Paul Wescher "Um Jan de Cock" in Zeitschrift für bildende Kunst, 59. 1925/26, p. 153.

Otto Benesch Die Zeichnungen der Niederländischen Schulen des XV. und XVI Jahrhunderts. Vienna, 1928, p. 11, under cat. 64.

Ludwig Baldass Zeichnungen von Jan de Cock und seinem Doppelgänger in Mitteilungen der Gesellschaft für vervielfältigende Kunst. 1929, p. 72ff (as by an anonymous Antwerp artist, ca. 1520).

Max J. Friedländer Die altniedeländische Malerei Die Antwerpe Manieristen: Adriaen Ysenbrant. 11, Berlin, 1933, p. 68.

Walter Mehring European Drawings from the Collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art (A Portfolio of Collotype Reproductions) [Vol. 1: Italian Drawings; Vol. 2: Flemish, Dutch, German, Spanish, French, and British drawings; Vol. 3: Titled "New Series": Italian, Flemish, Dutch, German, Spanish, French, and British drawings]. 3 Vols., New York, 1942-1944, cat. no. 4 (Vol.2), ill.

Knoedler and Co. Gallery Great Master Drawings of Seven Centuries A Benefit Exhbition of Columbia University for the Scholarship Fund of the Department of Fine Arts and Archaeology. New York, 1959, cat. no. 21, fig. no. XII, p. 27.

Max J. Friedländer Early Netherlandish Painting The Antwerp Mannerists Adriaen Ysenbrandt. 11, New York, Washington, 1974, p. 41; pl. 100c (, ill.