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Crustaceans in image numbered .1., .2., .3, .4., .5., .6., .7., .8., and .9., in red ink; center right in brown ink: XXXXVII.
Facing page: upper center in black ink: Quid folia arboribus, pleno quid sydera Coelo, / In freta collectas, alta quid addis aquas?; lower center in red ink: Dominus faciet homines sicut pisces maris: / et quasi reptile non habens principem.habcuc.1. (“The Lord makes men as the fishes of the sea and as the creeping things that have no ruler.” Habakkuk 1:14) (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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