Both the placing of the figure and the technique suggest that this wash drawing may have been done in connection with the illustration engraved after Fuseli by R.H. Cromek in 1803 for Chalmer's Shakespeare, an illustration to Henry IV, Part II, Act III, scene iii (S. 1282); the engraving is an upright composition and shows the figure in reverse. The syle and technique are close to, but less developed, than in the drawing (S. 1405) for another of the series, showing the Death of Falstaff from Henry V, (S. 1280).

On the reverse is a conventional depiction of a statue of a Roman emperor in armour by another hand