Empty bindings, such as this one, are still found with some frequency in museum depots. This now dismantled album, with its stained vellum binding, was made for the young priest Zobel around 1568 to house his collection of 124 sheets with a total of 166 Italian etchings and engravings. The Rijksmuseum owns 102 prints from the Zobel Album. The remaining ones found their way into various museums and private collections in Europe and the United States.