A preparatory drawing in red chalk for this print, which also exists in impressions printed over woodblock tones, is in the collection of the Dukes of Devonshire at Chatsworth.
The print is not recorded by Bartsch. Passavant and Le Blanc knew it in one state only, inscribed at lower left with the name of the artist, 'Micarino fec.'. The present sheet doesn't bear this inscription, which is present in all the impressions we have been able to trace in public collections. This leads us to believe that the inscription was removed from the plate in an undescribed second state, of which the present impression is a rare, if not unique, example.
To our knowledge only two other impressions, both with the name of the artist, have been offered at auction within the last thirty years.