Samson slaying the philistine with the jawbone of the ass
XVI century. Wash, Pencil, Pencil ground, Grey-brown ink on yellow paper.Not on display
The drawing is laid down onto the same type of eighteenth-century Italian backing, decorated with a ruled, pen-and-ink border, as St. John the Evangelist (D01881) and Sibyl (?)(D01919). Several other versions of this composition are known.
Turner, Nicholas, From Michelangelo to Annibale Carracci. A century of Italian drawings from the Prado, Chicago, Art Services International, 2008, p.229
