Engraved portrait taken from the series The effigies of Certain Famous Painters Chiefly from the Low Countries, 1610 published by Hendrick Hondius in the Hague. This portrait was originally designed by the scholar Dominicus Lampsonius in 1572 along with the verses below, but was re-designed by Hondius to include, in place of a white wall behind Bosch, a window that appears to be an opening on the artist's imagination, filled with his famous hellish figures and monsters. This inscription, while drawing attention to the manual skills of the artist, also addresses the consternated expression of the artist's visage: "What does it mean, Hieronymus Bosch, that astonished look in your eye, or the pallor in your countenance, just as if you were watching the ghostly specters of Erebus flit about before your eyes?"