Jacob Gole, a pupil of Cornelis Dusart in Haarlem and therefore well acquainted with Ostade's work, would seem to have based his print on Dusart's watercolour of Adriaen, now in the British Museum, London (A.M. Hind, Catalogue of Drawings by Dutch and Flemish Artists preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum, III, London, 1926, p. 102, no. 1, plate LIII). Ostade is mentioned on the plate as the draughtsman, and Dusart's name does not appear: possibly Dusart copied a now lost self-portrait by Ostade. Gole also did a smaller version of this portrait omitting the hat (Hollstein 104), as well as a number of other mezzotint portraits, including of artists like Rembrandt (Hollstein 111). Another version of Ostade's drawn portrait by Dusart from the Dr. Max A. Goldstein III Collection was sold at Kende Galleries, New York, 9 November 1945, lot 102 (photograph at the Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie, The Hague). The text on the reverse of the present plate reads 'Dits Karel Stewart die om Brittens misverstanden/In ballingschappen sworf tot dat zyn taey gedult door dapperheit van Monck en gelt der vrije landen/Herstelt wiert en zyn Ryk hem wettig heeft gehult' in reverse (This is Charles Stuart who because of Britain's misunderstandings wandered in exile until his tough patience because of the bravery of Monck and money of free countries was reinstalled and his empire did legally honour him). Charles Stuart was crowned King of Scotland in 1660, providing a terminus ante quem for this plate, the maker of which has not yet been identified.