A folio from a sketchbook or patternbook. On the recto: The centaur Nessus carrying off Deianira. The composition corresponds in reverse with an etching after Parmigianino, marked 'F.P' (not described in Bartsch XVI; impression in the British Museum).

On the verso: Minerva or Bellona. The composition corresponds in the same direction with a chiaroscuro woodcut (Bartsch XII, p. 122, no. 23); the original is probably the drawing at Chatsworth.

This folio is en suite in style, technique and style with seven of the eight leaves from a small album at Windsor (RCIN 991341-8). The odd-one-out in that album, 991347, must at some early date have been swapped with the present leaf in another album that formerly housed 991397-404. That other album, then containing the present folio, was purchased in 1935 from the collection of J.P. Heseltine; it had been in the collection of Jonathan Richardson the Elder, and the swap must therefore have occurred by the early eighteenth century. For more information about RCIN 991341-8 see the entry for RCIN 991341.