Watermark: none visible through lining.
The drawing and III-214c, as well as III-214b, were once together in the Wellesley collection, along with another drawing whose whereabouts are unknown, all attributed to Breenbergh and all once owned by Charles Fairfax Murray.
Inscribed on the verso, in graphite, at center right edge, "5 [in superscript] 82 ["82" in subscript]; at center, "Breemberg"; below this, "B 180"; and at lower right corner, "Wellesley Coll / 569-0417".
Breenbergh, Bartholomeus, 1599?-1657, Formerly attributed to.
Wellesley, Henry, 1791-1866, former owner.
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.
Jane Shoaf Turner, with contributions by Felice Stampfle, Dutch Drawings in the Pierpont Morgan Library: Seventeenth to Nineteenth Centuries, New York, 2006, cat. no. 284.