James Byam Shaw characterised the series of Satyr drawings as 'perhaps the most charming and original of all Domenico's drawings', J. Byam Shaw and G. Knox, The Robert Lehman Collection VI, Italian Eighteenth-Century Drawings, New York, 1987, p. 171. The drawings probably produced as independent works of art between 1771 and 1791 were discussed by Jean Cailleux in Centaurs, Fauns, Female Fauns and Satyrs among the Drawings of Domenico Tiepolo, The Burlington Magazine, CXVI, 1974, pp. I-XXVIII