Some of the designs of these grotesque terms, whose authorship is as yet unknown, influenced a number of other engravers just prior to this set, notably Agostino Veneziano (dated 1536), Cornelis Bos, and Bonasone. Bartsch assumed that Veneziano had drawn them from the antique. Luca Penni is behind most of the ornamental elements that form the elaborate frames in many of Mignon’s etchings.
Extremely rare, Jenkins found just five in museum collections.