Lot Essay
This is one of a series of drawings on the Parables, similar in size and technique, two of which, The Parable of the Sower and Dives and Lazarus, are at Windsor, A. Blunt and E. Croft-Murray, Venetian Drawings of the XVII & XVIII Centuries in the Collection of Her Majesty the Queen at Windsor Castle, London, 1957, nos. 5 and 6.