Plate 6: Five Catfish and Sturgeon(?), c. 1575/1580

Inscription

Fish in image numbered .1., .2, .3., .4., and .5. in red ink; center right in (gold?): VI.
Facing page: upper center in black ink: Elevaverunt flumina fluctus suos / a vocibus aquarum multarum ps:92 (“The floods have lifted up their waves, with the noise of many waters.” Psalms 92:3-4) (Latin Vulgate Bible); lower center in red ink: Viderunt te AQVAE Deus, viderunt te aquae / et timuerunt, et turbati sunt Abyssi. ps:76. (“The waters saw you, O God, the waters saw you; and they were afraid and the depths were troubled.” Psalms 76:17) (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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