Robert van den Hoecke - Engraving, Public domain image
Summary
Odysseus in wapenrusting loopt naar rechts; een huilende Amor en daarmee de eveneens treurende Circe op de achtergrond in haar paleis afwijzend. Boven Odysseus in de lucht Mercurius. Rechts op de achtergrond Odysseus' mannen bij hun schip. Onder de voorstelling een cartouche met de titel.
A cartouche or cartouch is an oval design with a slightly convex surface, typically edged with ornamental scrollwork. It is used to hold a painted or low relief design. In Early Modern design, since the early 16th century, the cartouche is a scrolling frame device, derived originally from Italian cartoccia. Such cartouches are characteristically stretched, pierced and scrolling (illustration, left). Another cartouche figures prominently in the title page of Giorgio Vasari's Lives, framing a minor vignette with a device of pierced and scrolling papery cartoccia.