Watermark: coat of arms Stamp, in red, lower right: Bates (Lugt 2604)

Inscribed, in pen and black ink, lower left: Quadro di Giuseppe Crespi, detto Spagnuolo Bolognese Inscribed, lower right: C. A. Bosso f. 1754 [C A and B in monogram] Inscribed, in pencil, lower center: Italian Inscribed, in pencil, verso, lower right: 678 Inscribed, in pencil, verso, lower left: 174 [crossed out] 28

William Bates (Birmingham, England) March 1889, sold by (Sotheby's, London, England). James E. Scripps (Detroit, Michigan, USA); Mrs. James E. Scripps (Detroit, Michigan, USA); 1909-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Italian, French, English, and Spanish Drawings and Watercolors: Sixteenth Through Eighteenth Centuries. New York, 1992, p. 314, no. A60.

Italian, The Sacrament of Ordination, 1754, pen and black ink with brown wash on buff antique laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps, 09.1SDR28.