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, "Tempera te tempori (title) / ___ quod adest memento / Componere aeqúús, caetera flúminis / Ritú ferúntúr, núnc medio alveo / Cum pace dilabentis Etrús, / cúm in mare, núnc lapides adesos / Stirpesque raptat, et pecus et domos / Volentis unâ, non sine montium / Clamore, vicinaeque sylvae / Cum fera diluvies quietos / irrat amnes" (Remember to settle with the tranquil heart the problem of the hour! All else is borne along like some river, now gliding peacefully in mid-channel to the Tuscan Sea, now rolling polished stones, uprooted trees, and flocks and homes together, with echoing of the hills and neighboring woods, while the wild deluge stirs up the peaceful streams). The text is from Horace, "Odes", Book III, 29, lines 32-41.
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. 193.