Plate 43: Mongoose and Badger with Fruit Trees, c. 1575/1580

Inscription

upper center in red/violet ink: In generatione et generationem veritas tua / Fundasti TERRAM et permanet .ps.118 (“Your truth to all generations. You have established the earth, and it remains.” Psalms 118:90) (Latin Vulgate Bible); center right in (gold?): XXXXIII.; animals in image numbered .1. and .2., in red ink; lower left center in brown ink: :1:; lower center in brown ink: Dum licet insidiis, stultum est decernere ferro. / Corpora parna, dolusq[ue] ingens in corpore parno / Insidiis Crocodile suis cadis.
Facing page: upper center in blue ink: Confiteantur tibi populi Deus, Co[n]fitea[n]t[ur] tibi populi omnes: / TERRA DEDIT FRVCTV[M] SVVM.ps.67: (“Let the people praise you, O God; let all the people praise you. The earth has yielded her fruit.” Psalms 66:6-7) (Latin Vulgate Bible); lower center in brown ink: Rura mihi et rigui placeant in vallibus Amnes: / Flumina amem: sylvasq[ue] inglorius.

Provenance

Emperor Rudolph of Austria; Lessing J. Rosenwald, Alverthorpe, PA; gift to NGA, 1987.

Exhibition History

1982

Drawings from the Holy Roman Empire, = 1540 - 1680, The Art Museum, Princeton University, National Gallery of Art, Museum of Art, Carnegie Insitute, Pittsburgh (exh. cat. by Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann, no. 56.

1982

Drawings from the Holy Roman Empire, 1540 - 1680, The Art Museum, Princeton University, National Gallery of Art, Museum of Art, Carnegie Insitute, Pittsburgh (exh. cat. by Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann, no. 56.

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