In the foreground of the drawing is the Resurrection with the Calling of Saint Peter, Noli Me Tangere and the Harrowing of Hell in the background. As De Vries noted the present sheet has much in common with drawings from the circle of Hans Holbein I. Christiane Andersson suggested that this may be related to the circle of Jörg Schweiger, a contemporary of Holbein in Basel. Drawings by artists from Schweiger's circle are similar in figure type and use of wash to the present drawing, T. Falk, Katalog der Zeichnungen des 15. und 16. Jahrhunderts im Kupferstichkabinett Basel, Basel, 1979, I, nos. 280 and 283, both illustrated. Hyatt Mayor proposed that the present drawing may be a preparatory study for glass painting, but the detailed background makes this unlikely. Andersson suggested that it may be a copy of a painting, for she noted that the clasps of Christ's robe in the Harrowing of Hell are missing