A pen and ink drawing of two scenes facing in opposite directions of two figures in classical dress, possibly a Virgin and Child or Amor and Psyche; central fold, traces of black chalk. In one scene, the two figures embrace; in the other, the child holds an apple aloft and the female figure possibly holds a conch. Each scene is outlined with a rectangular pen and ink line. Traces of a watermark at edge of sheet, not identified. On the verso, the number 6 in pencil at one corner. A few strokes in pen.

Angelica Kauffmann was a Swiss-born painter of portraits and genre paintings in a neo-classical style. Her early years were spent in Italy, Switzerland and Austria, and she was in England between 1766 and 1781, becoming one of two female founding members of the Royal Academy in 1768. She returned to Italy in 1781, becoming the most famous and successful painter in Rome after the death of Pompeo Batoni in 1787. The subject of the present drawing has not been identified; the studies possibly relate to a drawing of Amor and Psyche, c. 1792 in the Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum, Innsbruck (inv. no. K104). The central fold and opposing directions of the two studies suggest a page from a sketchbook.