Inscription very ambitious. Need to see object

Ken proposes that this could be linked with Hendrik Goltzius - 17 March 2014. Interloan catalogues raisonnes of drawings to investigate further. Article from KH to follow

Dates lower left are those of Raphael

Jonathan Swift?

http://www.rkd.nl/rkddb/dispatcher.aspx?action=search&database=ChoiceArchives&search=priref=69

http://www.jhm.nl/cultuur-en-geschiedenis/personen/g/garf,+salomon

Artist (and sitter?) died in Auschwitz

Details being supplied by Dutch Art History Institute September 2014

Where is this?

Why French title? Compare BM 1918,1010.31

Norwich?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!

Neptune, the west wind, and Venus stepping ashore?

Probably from New Zealand Illustrated but have checked all illustrtaions by Vaughan

What does title mean? It's in the Retiro.

Possibly a plate from John Harris's History of Kent, but editions with plates listed do not include it

JH says: sleeping Jesus is a reference to the Pieta so the presence of Mary Magdalene, with a pot of unguent, is appropriate. The setting is not strictly speaking a nativity as it is outdoors, with angels and visible sky, so the whole scene is imaginary and predictive, rather than being a depiction of the Nativity itself.

Compare Met New York http://www.metmuseum.org/collection/the-collection-online/search/400365

And now have TIB in artist file

And British Museum
Museum numberV,10.27

Not listed in Olivier catalogue