Battle in the Straits of Messina

Signed at lower right: BRUEGEL INVENTOR (first state only); at lower left: ·F· HVIIS· FECIT·; in letterprint, above or beneath the illustration: CORNELIUS A DALEM ECUDEBAT, ANNO.X.D.LXI.CUM PRIVILEGIO (first state only); in a cartouche at lower right: Hieronymus Cock pictor excudebat, M.D. lxi/ Cum Gratia et privilegio./ Bruegel Inven. (second and subsequent states); inscribed in the upper margin: FRETI SICULI SIVE MAMERTINI VULGO EL FARO DI MESSINA OPTICA DELINEATIO [View of the Straits of Sicily or Messina, known in the vernacular as the Lighthouse of Messina] (second and subsequent states); above the mountains on the right: MESSINA (second and subsequent states); above the mountains on the left: REZE (second and subsequent states); in a cartouche at lower right: Trinacriae insignes portum ..... factum'que barathrum. (eight lines, second and subsequent states)