Signature: No watermark is visible: the entire sheet has been pasted down onto a mount.
Inscription: Illegible annotation in graphite at lower left corner of sheet (see also acc. no. 62.120.6).
Annotated in pen and brown ink at lower right, "Seb. Ricci."
Annotated on old mat, in pen and brown ink, at center of lower border, "Sebastiano Ricci," at lower left corner, "164.2," and, at bottom right, "WE" (Lugt 2617).
Annotated on verso of old mat, in graphite, "ZI [or 21]/ UFFZ," at upper left corner in graphite, "6," and, at lower left, "R. Willett's colln WE [Lugt 2617] P 86 N 164."
Old annotations on mat, on the left, "Horace. / (Livre II. Ode XIV.) // Eheu! fugaces, Posthume, Posthume, / Labuntur anni, nec pietas moram // Rugis, et instanti senectae / adferet, indomitae que morti ... // Linguenda tellus, et domus, et placens uxor ...!";
on the bottom, "Entre le Temps et la Mort, / l'Homme invoque l'Espérance.";
on the right, "Horace. / (Livre I. Ode IV.) // Vitae summa brevis spem nos vetat / inchoare longam. //
...sed credula vitam / spes fovet, et melius cras fore semper ait. / Tibulle. / (Livre II. Elègie VII.)"
Marking: Collector's mark in pen and brown ink on old mat, bottom right "WE" (Lugt 2617).
Annotated on mount, on verso, in pen and brown ink, "J:B N:512. / 11¼ by 7½" (Lugt 1420).
