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, "Culmen honoris lubricúm (title)/ Auream qúisqúis mediocritatem/ Deligit, tútús caret obsoleti/ Sordibus tecti, caret invidenda/ Sobriús aúla./ Saepiús ventis agitatur ingens/ Pinús, et celsae graviore casú/ Decidúnt túrres, feriúntque súmmos/ fúlmina montes" (Who so cherishes the golden mean, safely avoids the foulness of an ill-kept house and discreetly, too, avoids a hall exciting envy. 'Tis oftener the tall pine that is shaken by the wind; 'tis the lofty towers that fall with the heavier crash, and 'tis the tops of the mountains that the lightening strikes). The text is from Horace, "Odes", Book II, 10, lines 5-12.
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. 81, no. 158.