A drawing of an elaborate garden setting, with Mercury in the centre, adorned with flowers and carrying a large branch of flowering olive on which a parrot is perched. He advances towards a group of elderly people resting beneath a palm tree on the left. In the left background there is a villa with a fountain, and on the right a seated loving couple attended by servants. Other figures dance before a group of musicians under a pergola. In the sky is a cluster of stars and the Twins (Gemini) embracing. The whole is surrounded by decorative borders with flowering laurels, birds, and musicians. There is an empty cartouche as in RCIN 906853. Inscribed within the upper border: Maius maioribus honorem exhibens, floribus ridet, fructum promittentibus. This is a design for one of a series of tapestries (RCIN 906853-906860, RCIN 913024) illustrating the Months.

Although these drawings form part of what are probably four series, almost certainly representing designs for tapestries, they are clearly by the same hand, or possibly hands. It should be noted that Nicholas Turner suggests that they may be connected with Francesco Salviati. They are possibly related to tapestries for the Fabbrica degli Arazzi in Florence, founded by Cosimo de' Medici. The paper of other drawings in the series, however, has a French grapes watermark, type of Briquet 13073-4, c.1565-87. The drawings may be the work of a foreign artist active in France during the reign of Charles IX (1560-74).