Recto: preliminary design for title page for the print series Venationes Ferarum Arium Piscium; Verso: notes by Stradanus about payments to a tailor

An escutcheon is in the center. It is flanked by dragons. The head of an elephant is shown above, in the center, heads of a boar and of an ape, respectively, upon upper scrolls. In the intervals, between the escutcheon and the lateral framings are two buffaloes and a lion, at left, a dragon and a tiger, at right. Below is a boar with an ovoid. A fox is shown at left, a hyena at right. Verso: inscriptions dated 2 april and 14 June 1597