A black and white chalk drawing on grey paper possibly showing the death of Cleopatra. Two woman weep over the body of Cleopatra, while three soldiers burst in on the right. At left, an urn and a sphinx. The sheet marked at regular intervals around the edges, possibly for squaring up.

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 present drawing has not been connected with any surviving paintings by Kauffmann.