Watermark: none.
Signed with monogram "HS (interlaced) above a litte shovel". Traces of an inscription trimmed away at upper left edge. Inscribed in a contemporary hand on verso, in graphite, "...Domini...xvii / ...[illegible]".
Schwarting, G., former owner.
Brittain, Alfred, Mrs., donor.
Ripley, James H., Mrs., donor.
Edward Schilling, "Zeichungen des Hans Leonhard Schäufelein," Zitschrift für Kusntwissenschaft, ix, 1955, 157-158, 177, no. 4, fig. 8.
Alter Meister aus Deutschem Privatbesitz, Kunsthalle, Bremen, 1966, no. 62, pl. 32.
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Twentieth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1981-1983. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1984, p. 298-299.