Watermark: since the drawings are laid down, no watermarks, if any, are visible, even with fiber-optic light.
Engraved in reverse, 1607.
Also see records on Van Veen Album (III, 146-157).
Inscribed on the album page below the design, in brown ink, "Frúctús laboris gloria (title)/ Qúi stúdet optatam cúrsú contingere metam/ Multa tulit fecitqúe púer, súdavit et alsit,/ Abstinúit venere et vino. Qúi Pythia cantat/ Tibicen, didicit priús, extimúitqúe magistrúm" (He who in the racecourse craves to reach the longed-for goal, has borne much and done much as a boy, has sweated and shivered, has kept aloof from wine and women. The flautist who plays at the Pythian games, has first learned his lessons and been in awe of a master). The text is from Horace, "Ars poetica", lines 412-15.
Netherlandish drawings of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries and Flemish drawings of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in the Pierpont Morgan Library / Felice Stampfle ; with the assistance of Ruth S. Kraemer and Jane Shoaf Turner. New York : The Library, 1991, p. 73, no. 127.