Ambrosius Spinola (Crispijn van de Passe I)

Signed bottom centre / gesigneerd middenonder: crispin de pas excu: inscription / inscripties: ambrosio spinola dvx. Sct. Severini priceps saravailæ marcho de beaffro necno regis hisp. Belgi. Exercitvv svprevs pfecto maior fortua, melior vertute, toæque spinula, spina malum figis, instumque bounique // clarus, militiæ strenuus atque potens. Mellito refoues corde. Quid ergo. Vale crispin de pas excu: provenance / herkomst: 1951: bequeathed to the museum boijmans van beuningen by dr. J. C. J. Bierens de haan. Date: 1602-1637 (presumably).