Black ink, leaf: 199 x 147 mm, drawing: 170 x 129 mm.

Signed by the artist below the image: “Rodolphus Braemi. Pictor Tigurinus“ (= Rudolph Braemi, painter from Zurich).

Verso: caricatured oval-shaped self(?)-portrait of the artist with palette, graphite.

The crest belongs to the Koch family from Frauenfeld, which died out in 1609/1610. Its last living member was Laurenz known as Kouff.

Literary sources: Katalog August Laube, Alte Meister Graphik – Moderne Graphik – Alte Drucke – Zeichnungen Zürich o. Jahr (2007); p. 20 with illustration.