Have you noticed that the headdress on this nymph is different from most of the veils and diadems on the female nymphs?
It looks like one of those rolled and hanging fabric-tail hats worn by men. They wrapped them in a variety of ways, but what they had in common was a rounded part (sometimes rolled) over the forehead, then tails hanging in two directions, either front and back or side and side, or sometimes back and top as in the red hat on the left. There is no long hair flowing from under the headdress as one usually sees.
Also, the nymph's breasts are in darker ink (added later??) and the groin area has been either heavily inked or altered.
Was it originally drawn as a man (or did the illustrator start drawing it as a man and change it, either as an afterthought or based on instructions from someone or somewhere)?
It looks like one of those rolled and hanging fabric-tail hats worn by men. They wrapped them in a variety of ways, but what they had in common was a rounded part (sometimes rolled) over the forehead, then tails hanging in two directions, either front and back or side and side, or sometimes back and top as in the red hat on the left. There is no long hair flowing from under the headdress as one usually sees.
Also, the nymph's breasts are in darker ink (added later??) and the groin area has been either heavily inked or altered.
Was it originally drawn as a man (or did the illustrator start drawing it as a man and change it, either as an afterthought or based on instructions from someone or somewhere)?