Domienico Campagnola in 1517, the year following his adoptive father, Giulio's death, engaged himself almost totally in printmaking. Although he was still only seventeen, nearly all his dated engravings and woodcuts, as the present example, date from that year. David Landau suggests in the Royal Academy catalogue that, unlike his contemporaries who normally used the services of a professional woodcutter, Campagnola cut this wood block himself