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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- Title Page
- 1987.20.6.1
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- Plate 9: A Donkey and a Mule
- 1987.20.6.10
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- Plate 10: A Lion and a Civet Cat
- 1987.20.6.11
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- Plate 11: A Lioness with Two Lions in the Background
- 1987.20.6.12
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- Plate 12: A Cheetah(?) and a Wild Sheep
- 1987.20.6.13
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- Plate 13: A Tiger, a Lynx, and a Jaguar(?)
- 1987.20.6.14
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- Plate 14: A Civet, a Lynx, and a Hyena Eating a Dog
- 1987.20.6.15
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- Plate 15: A Bear and a Lynx(?)
- 1987.20.6.16
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- Plate 16: Wild Boar
- 1987.20.6.17
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- Plate 17: Old World Porcupine (Hystrix) and Wild Pig
- 1987.20.6.18
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- Plate 18: A Pig with Acorns
- 1987.20.6.19
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- Plate 1: Elephant with Insects
- 1987.20.6.2
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- Plate 19: Four Types of Stags
- 1987.20.6.20
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- Plate 20: Three Types of Stags with a Dormouse(?)
- 1987.20.6.21
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- Plate 21: Reindeer with Melons
- 1987.20.6.22
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- Plate 24: A Wild Goat and a Barbary Sheep(?)
- 1987.20.6.25
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- Plate 25: Two Wild Goats
- 1987.20.6.26
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- Plate 26: A Red Fox and a Wolf
- 1987.20.6.27
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- Plate 2: Two Giraffes with an Attendant
- 1987.20.6.3
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- Plate 30: Two Monkeys
- 1987.20.6.31
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- Plate 32: Two Monkeys on a Table
- 1987.20.6.33
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- Plate 33: A "Simivulpa" (Opossum?) and an Ibex
- 1987.20.6.34
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- Plate 34: Three Dogs, Including a "Mimick"
- 1987.20.6.35
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- Plate 35: A Hound and a Water Spaniel
- 1987.20.6.36
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- Plate 36: Two Spotted Hounds
- 1987.20.6.37
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- Plate 37: Two Spaniels with a Gourd
- 1987.20.6.38
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- Plate 38: Two Small Dogs with a Crown Imperial
- 1987.20.6.39
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- Plate 3: Camel, Ibex, and Goat
- 1987.20.6.4
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- Plate 40: Two Otters and a Beaver
- 1987.20.6.41
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- Plate 42: Two Genets or Civet Cats with Tulips
- 1987.20.6.43
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- Plate 44: Polecat, Mink, and Ermine
- 1987.20.6.45
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- Plate 45: Weasels, a Ferret, and a "Nut Mouse"
- 1987.20.6.46
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- Plate 4: Llama and Moose
- 1987.20.6.5
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- Plate 52: Two Sand Lizards
- 1987.20.6.53
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- Plate 56: Two Heads of Cabbage
- 1987.20.6.57
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- Plate 58: Asps and Vipers
- 1987.20.6.59
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- Plate 5: An Ox and a Camel
- 1987.20.6.6
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- Plate 59: Snakes and a Lizard
- 1987.20.6.60
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- Plate 60: Four Small Snakes
- 1987.20.6.61
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- Plate 61: Four Snails
- 1987.20.6.62
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- Plate 62: A Slug with Snails
- 1987.20.6.63
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- Plate 63: Seven Snails
- 1987.20.6.64
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- Plate 71: Empty Oval
- 1987.20.6.72
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- Plate 7: A Bull and a Horned Animal
- 1987.20.6.8
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- Plate 8: A Cow
- 1987.20.6.9