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Inscribed in graphite, upper left, written vertically downwards: "16"; inscribed in graphite, lower left to lower center: "H 50 II The Two Asses."; inscribed in graphite, lower center: (arrow pointing left towards Francis Seymour Haden's initials) "Initialed by F S Haden March 1867 | [?as] bon à [...] F Goulding [?Printer]."; inscribed in graphite, lower right: "c. [...]"; inscribed in graphite, lower left: "2" (encircled); inscribed in pale brown ink, lower left on back: "[?Hall] 189."; inscribed in graphite, lower center on back: "1"; inscribed in graphite, lower left on back, written upside down: "1965.118.10"

Marked in black ink, center on back, stamped upside down: "B" stamped within a cube shape (this is the collector's mark of Gordon A Block)

Lettered lower left to lower right within image: "This plate is a part of the square one wh. follows it. Both | were drawn and bitten under the Mordant and afterwards | cut. The balance wd. have been better preserved if the | division had not been made, and if this white space | had been filled in with strong work as intended."

Signed in graphite, lower left: "F.S.H ."