Marcus Gheeraerts the elder (c.1520 – c.1590) made this frontispiece for “Animalium quadrupedum Omnis Generis Verae et artificosissimae delineationes ” in 1583. Pictoro Marco Gerardo Brugense A. 1583. Gedruckt t’ Amsterdam bij Fredrick de Witt in de Kalverstraat in de witte paskaert.
He was active in his native Flanders, but in 1568 moved to England because of persecution for his Calvinist faith. He returned to work in Antwerp in 1577.
