A pen and ink drawing of two opera singers in costume: full-length figures turned in profile to the left; a male singer in a plumed headpiece imploring a female singer, who faces away. Dated at the upper right corner, 1728.

The singers in this drawing were identified by Enrico Lucchese in 2015 as the castrato Nicola Grimaldi (1673-1732), known as 'Nicolino', and the soprano Lucia Facchinelli (active 1720s) known as 'La Becheretta'. Both singers performed in Leonardo Lalli's Argeno at the theatre of San Grisostomo in 1728, where Joseph Smith kept a box. Grimaldi is in the costume of the Chinese Emperor Argeno, with Facchinelli as his daughter.

This drawing belongs to an album of operatic caricatures mainly by Marco Ricci and Anton Maria Zanetti the Elder, an intact album from the library of Joseph Smith. Zanetti and another Venetian collector, Francesco Algarotti, owned similar albums, with many of the caricatures copied or traced, with identifying inscriptions. Zanetti's album is now in the Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Venice, and Algarotti's belongs to Albert Gellman and is in the Israel Museum, Jerusalem. Opera was an important part of Venetian society and culture, and such caricatures were circulated among friends and collectors for light-hearted amusement.

RCIN 907290 is closely related to this drawing, one of seven from Joseph Smith's album in which Grimaldi is represented: RCIN 907284-907290. He is also caricatured in the Algarotti-Gellman Album of eighteenth-century Venetian operatic caricatures: Croft-Murray no. 32. See also the Zanetti album of caricatures in the Fondazione Cini, Venice: inv. nos. 36411, 36435. Facchinelli is also represented in RCIN 907355.