COLLAERT, A. (after). - Glaucus, Cantharus, Salpa, Rarus. (Piscium Vivæ Icones - Fish).

Depiction of Glaucus, Cantharus, Salpa, Rarus. Fish set against a mountainous landscape in the manner of Pieter Brueghel the Elder. Plate number 12. The engraving is copied after Adrian Collaert plate in "Piscium Vivæ Icones" a series first published in Antwerp by Adriaen Collaert after 1598; later published between 1627 and 1677 by Galle family. Several copies were made of this series.
Most of the ships in the background were copied from a series of ten prints known as the Sailing Vessels, executed by Frans Huys after designs by Pieter Brueghel the Elder.