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, "Post mortem cessat invidia (title) / ___ diram qui contudit hydram / Notaqúe fatali portenta labore subegit / Comperit invidiam supremo fine domari / Urit enim fúlgore súo qúi praegravat artes / infrâ se positas, exstinctús amabitúr idem" (He who crushed the fell Hydra and laid low with fated toil the monsters of stories found that Envy is quelled only by death that comes at last. For man scorches with his brilliance who outweighs merits lowlier than his own, yet, he, too, will win affection when his light is quenched). The text is from Horace, "Epistles", Book II, 1, lines 10-14.
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. 93, no. 194.