An engraving of a male head composed of landscape features and buildings. This print is an unrecorded copy of an engraving by Merian published around 1620-1623. The monogram (which might be interpreted as NP) is close to that of Nicolas Pérelle, but he was born in 1631 - too late to have produced the print because this album was compiled no later than 1641. The print is positioned vertically on the folio so that the optical illusion can be appreciated. The painting from which this print ultimately derived is probably that formerly in the collection of Alfred Barr Jr., New York. The print was copied and included in Athanasius Kircher's Ars magna lucis et umbrae (1646), to illustrate his description of an anthropomorphic mountain formation in Southern Italy. For more information about Arcimboldo and the prints inspired by his work in this album, see RCIN 807495.

This print is inlaid in folio 29 of the Dutch Drolls album (RCIN 970362). This album originally contained 99 prints on 72 folios, with the prints numbered 1-99 in pencil in a nineteenth-century hand on the mount sheet above each print. A number of other prints were added later, mostly on the versos of the existing sheets and on two additional folios at the end of the album (fols 73-74), probably during the nineteenth century.

For more information see Mark McDonald, The Print Collection of Cassiano dal Pozzo. I: Ceremonies, Costumes, Portraits and Genre, 3 vols, Royal Collection Trust 2017, part of The Paper Museum of Cassiano dal Pozzo: A Catalogue Raisonné, cat. no. 403.