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  • "Christan Mascall"
    Type: inscription
    Location: verso
    Materials: pen and brown ink
  • James Bowdoin III( Collector, Boston) - 1811.
  • Bowdoin College Museum of Art( Museum, Brunswick, Maine) 1811- . Bequest
  • Old Master Drawings at Bowdoin College
    • Bowdoin College Museum of Art. ( 5/17/1985 - 7/7/1985)
    • Clark Art Institute. ( 9/14/1985 - 10/27/1985)
    • University of Kansas. ( 1/19/1986 - 3/2/1986)
    • Art Gallery of Ontario. ( 5/17/1986 - 6/29/1986)
		

Judson has tentatively suggested Crispin van de Passe; Oberhuber feels the sheet is German. There are resemblances to the style of Nicolas Knupfer (cf. J. I. Kuznetzow, "Nikolaus Knupfer [1603?-1655]," Oud Holland, vol. 88, no. 3 [1974], p. 216, fig. 35).

Commentary credited to David P. Becker (or not otherwise captioned) appeared in his catalogue Old Master Drawings at Bowdoin College (Brunswick: Bowdoin College Museum of Art, 1985).