Calligraphic drawing with the salutation: Characteres Latini ... and a dedication in two lines: D. Adriano Smoutio artium liberalium magistro dignissimo. Below that an initial F and eight lines of text in Latin: Filijs suis Lacedaemony ... The text ends with a lower case alphabet in the same hand. To the right and left scrollwork. At the bottom a (sea) horse in scrollwork. The drawing is part of an album, Design of a writing sample: Characteres Latini (...) Spieghel der schrijfkonste (series title), Jan van de Velde (I), (mentioned on object), Jan van de Velde (I), (mentioned on object

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