Spes.

Drawing, pen and black ink, brown and red wash, 15 x 10,2 cm, laid paper with watermark (eagle), unsigned (sm. brown stain at lower left, vague vert. crease).

Under passe-partout.

After an engraving by Matham, based on a design by Hendrick Goltzius. The print was part of a series of 3 Cardinal Virtues.
Ref. Hollstein XXII:118.
Prov. Unidentified coll. stamp on verso (not in Lugt).