Frontispiece: Ornamenti o Grottesche

Two eagles with wings spread, below two leopard heads attached to tree trunks that form three circles, from "Ornaments or Grotesques" (Ornamenti o Grottesche)

Stefano della Bella

Plate 5, from "Friezes with Birds, Flowers and Meandering Wreaths and Scrolls"

Theodor Bang, Balthasar Caymox

Death beating a drum above, an owl and a bell attached to a ribbon below, from "Ornaments or Grotesques" (Ornamenti o Grottesche)

Stefano della Bella

Ornament with Owl Mocked by Day Birds

Martin Schongauer

Horizontal Panel with an Eagle Flanked by Two Genii

Sebald Beham

Ornament with Owl Mocked by Day Birds

Martin Schongauer

Death Beating a Drum

Etched by Stefano della Bella

Plate 3, from "Friezes with Birds, Flowers and Meandering Wreaths and Scrolls"

Theodor Bang, Balthasar Caymox

Ornament with Owl Mocked by Day Birds

Master F.V.B.

Ornamental Foliage, with an Owl and other Birds

Germany

Ornamental Frieze with Two Battling Tritons

Hans Sebald Beham

Design for a Frieze with Two Griffins

Anonymous, Italian, 17th century