A drawing of a scene outside a high wall with a naked man being hauled along the ground, watched by soldiers and onlookers. In the air above the victim St Mark swoops to intervene.

This repesents an episode from the life of Mark, patron saint of Venice, taken from Jacopo da Varazze's Golden Legend. The saint intervenes to render invulnerable an enslaved man about to be martyred for his veneration of another saint's relics. This subject is represented in the celebrated composition by Tintoretto, now in the Accademia, Venice, from which the figure of the saint descending from above ultimately derives. This drawing is attributed in Inventory A to Tintoretto, but it is closer in style to Palma Giovane.