This print is pasted in an album containing 231 prints, for the entire album see 1952,0117.14.1-231. All the prints are pasted on pages of the publication "A list of the officers of the army, and marines; with an index: a list of the officers half-pay; and a succession of colonels" (War Office, the 15th March 1788, the 36th edition), bound in a red moroccan leather, tool-gilted on the covers and a strip of tool-gilted leather pasted on the spine, titled "Engravings". The prints are preceded by a manuscript list of the contents. The album contains mainly illustrations to Jacob Cats' "Spiegel vanden Ouden ende Nieuwe Tijd" after Adriaen van de Venne's designs and various other series arranged in a random order, which are known to exist in hand-coloured versions. It also includes a copy after Rembrandt's etching "The Rat-catcher", see 1952,0117.14.150.

This is the title-page to Jacob Cats' "Spiegel vanden Ouden ende Nieuwe Tijd" which is illustrated with proverbs. The compositions of all the illustrations are placed in a roundel, mostly with a banderol below, inscribed in various languages (Dutch, French, English, Spanish, Italian, Latin, Greek, Arabic, Hebrew). The prints are cut from the original publication and still bear the letterpress lettering on the verso. This publication was first published in The Hague by Isaac Burchoorn in 1632. Later editions were printed in 1635, 1655 and 1658. The illustrations are etched by Daniel van Bremden, Willen Hondius, Adriaen Matham, Theodor Matham, Crispijn van den Queborn, Andreas Stock, Jan Gerritsz. Swelinck and anonymous engravers. Some of the unsigned illustrations are possibly by Swelinck as well.