A variant was sold in these Rooms, 11 December 1981, lot 98, and a related drawing was sold at Boerner, Leipzig, 25 April 1921, lot 187 and pl.XIX. The subject was engraved by the artist himself, in reverse and with extensive variations, notably the inclusion of a dog in the centre and a mother and children in the right foreground; it is signed and dated 1606 in the plate and displays in a cartouche the inscription 'Die den nest weet die wethen Maer die hem rooft die heeften'