Inscription: Inscribed in pen and brown ink in the artist's hand at the lower border, Sr. Gioseppe Henrij Inglese huomo assai erudito nelle Antichità e in Letteratura huomo assai... ; in another hand at lower border on the old mount, Cavaliere Inglese dilettante delle Antichità; numbered in pen and brown ink in upper right corner of the old mount, 52.

Gerald Wellesley, 7th Duke of Wellington (British, 1885–1972); Robert M. Light

Jacob Bean European Drawings Recently Acquired, 1972-1975 Exh. cat., New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 1975-1976, fig. no. 23.

Jacob Bean Artists in Rome in the 18th Century: Drawings and Prints [cover title: Rome in the 18th century] Exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Feb. 7-May 7, 1978. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1978.

Ann Percy and E.P. Bowron A Scholar Collects: Selections from the Anthony Morris Clark Bequest Exh. cat., Philadelphia Museum of Art. Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, 1980, p. 24-25.

James Byam Shaw The Italian Drawings of the Frits Lugt Collection. I, Paris, 1983, I, p. 187, ill.

Richard T. Godfrey , et al. English Caricature, 1620 to the Present. Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1984, cat. no. 8, fig. no. pl. 5, p. 31, ill.

Anthony M. Clark Pompeo Batoni A Complete Catalogue of His Works with an Introductory Text. Edgar Peters Bowron, New York, 1985, p. 250.

Jacob Bean, William M. Griswold 18th Century Italian Drawings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art Exh. cat., New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1990, cat. no. 71, fig. no. 71, p. 87, ill.

Nadine Orenstein, Constance C. McPhee Infinite Jest: Caricature and Satire from Leonardo to Levine. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New Haven and London, 2011, cat. no. 113, 145, ill.