Plate 4: Llama and Moose, c. 1575/1580

Inscription

upper center in black ink: FORMICA CAMELVS.; right center in gold: IV.; animals in image numbered .1. and .2., in red ink.
Facing page: upper center in brown ink: Redditur Arboribus, florens revirentibus aetas: / Ergo non Homini, quod fuit ante redit.;lower center in brown ink: MALA AVREA in lectis argenteis: qui loquitur / Verbum in tempore suo.pro:25. (“To speak a word in due time is like apples of gold on beds of silver.” Proverbs 25:11) (Latin Vulgate Bible)

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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