A broadside with an allegory on commerce; with a late impression of a woodcut by Jost Amman first published in 1585, showing a view of Antwerp and the river Schelde, above this view a figure of Mercury holding a large pair of scales which is in balance, the dishes filled with one book each, and with cuffs labelled debitor and creditor respectively, Mercury flanked on each side with a set of six rows of coats-of-arms, below the scales a basin with a column surmounted with a figure of Fortune, at the bottom of the print an interior of a merchant's house, with the merchant seated at a desk in the centre; with letterpress title and verses printed on various tablets and cartouches within the woodcut, four tablets also with type ornaments. (n.p.:[1800-1854])
1585 (first publication)
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