Signed center on the print, "C.N. Gijsbrechts A' 1665". Here we see a glass-windowed cupboard, its door ajar. Tucked behind a horizontal metal bar and into the wooden frame are various written and printed documents and writing implements, while dimly visible within are stacks of coins, eye glasses, sticks of sealing wax and a wooden box. On the door itself, at the very center of the composition, is a small sheaf of prints, stitched together in the upper margins. The etching on top, the only one visible to the viewer, is a small head of a man in profile based on a print by Jan Lievens, but Gysbrechts has added his own signature underneath and the date 1665. To the left is a 1657 almanac from Liege, which partly obscures a newspaper with the headline "Victor." This latter has been identified as referring to the English victory over the Dutch in the Battle of Lowestoft, June 1665. The other elements of the still life are more generic in nature and have not been linked to any known pamphlets or books. (http://www.sothebys.com)