A pen and ink drawing of the head and shoulders of a woman, facing front and wearing a mob cap. This caricature of Rosalba Carriera was presumably created during one of Zanetti's visits to his good friend Carriera at San Vio, Venice. Its irreverent comic incisiveness is proof of the familiarity and affection that existed between the artists. She is perhaps represented comfortably at home, unadorned in a simple mob cap.

This drawing belongs to an album of operatic caricatures mainly by Marco Ricci and Anton Maria Zanetti the Elder, an intact album from the library of Joseph Smith. Zanetti and another Venetian collector, Francesco Algarotti, owned similar albums, with many of the caricatures copied or traced, with identifying inscriptions. Zanetti's album is now in the Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Venice, and Algarotti's belongs to Albert Gellman and is in the Israel Museum, Jerusalem. A very similar drawing of the artist is in Zanetti's album in the Fondazione Cini: inv. 36557.

Rosalba Carriera was born in Venice. She began her career as a painter of snuffboxes, but rose quickly to fame for her pastel portraits, which became highly desired across Europe. She spent a brief period in Paris in 1720 where she was met with great acclaim, returning to Venice where Joseph Smith acted as a friend and agent. He also had the finest collection of her pastels in the city, only five of which can be identified in the Royal Collection. The largest group of pastels by Carriera belonged to Frederick Augustus Elector of Saxony, to whom she was introduced by the Venetian collector Francesco Algarotti. Over 100 of her pastels were on display at his residence in Dresden in a 'Rosalba Room'. The artist became blind in later life and died in 1757.