The present drawing is related, in reverse, to the title page of the Recueil de divers griffonnements et preuves d'eau forte faict Stef. della Bella, A. De Vesme, Stefano della Bella, New York, 1971, nos. 412, illustrated. Other academies similar in style to the present one are at Windsor (A. Blunt, The Drawings of G.B. Castiglione & Stefano della Bella in the Collection of Her Majesty the Queen at Windsor Castle, London, 1954, no. 105, pl. 35), in the Louvre (F. Viatte, Inventaire général des dessins italiens: Dessins de Stefano della Bella, Paris, 1974, no. 331, illustrated) and in the Gabinetto Nazionale delle Stampe in Rome, M. Catelli Isola, Disegni di Stefano della Bella, exhib. cat., Villa della Farnesina, Rome, 1976, no. 14, illustrated.