From the same series of drawings as lot p. 27, q.v. On the recto the figure on the left, numbered '29', derives from Michelangelo's Josias in a spandrel in the Sistine Chapel, Rome, while that on the right, '30', is close to one of the figures in the Offering of Noah: As part of the right-hand figure on the verso seems to have been lost through the trimming of the paper it is possible that there was another figure, numbered '22', on the left, leading on from the sequence '20' to '27' on lot p 27. The three figures on the verso are drawn with paler, more fluid washes than those used for the recto and show a nude man in profile, kneeling and pouring wine from a flask into a goblet, a full-face figure of a dumpy, plump man, fully clothed in contemporary dress including a wig, and an anguished-looking figure, kneeling over what appears to be a fire; all are somewhat caricatured. The grotesque head on the recto, with suggestions of a body behind, was presumably a later doodle