The drawing captures the textures of a thicket of trees, with peacocks and a parrot in the branches and dogs, sheep, turkeys and a laden ass below. The dashes and dots, loops and parallel strokes appear at first glance almost frenzied, but are in fact carefully controlled. Every mark has its purpose, and the self-consciously aggressive penwork of Castiglione’s earlier drawings has been tempered by a new subtlety. Cat. 20