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Inscription

Fish in image numbered .1., .2., .3., .4., .5., .6., .7., .8., and .9., in red ink; center right in (gold?): XXXXII.
Facing page: upper center in blue ink: Saucius arrepto, piscis retinetur ab hamo.; lower center in red/violet ink: Flumina plaudent manu simul: montes exultabunt / a Conspectu dei ps:97. (“The rivers shall clap their hands, the mountains shall rejoice together at the presence of the Lord” Psalms 97:8 and 9) (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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