Plate 9: Two Pheasants with Fruiting Plants, c. 1575/1580

Inscription

Upper center in violet ink: Triste lupus stabulis, maturis frugibus hymbres / Arboribus venti, Christi fidelibus irae.; center right in (gold?): IX.; birds in image numbered .1. and .2., in red ink; plants in image numbered .3. and .4., in red ink.
Facing page: Upper center in black ink: Argina primum sunt transportata carina, / Ante mihi notum, nil nisi Phasis erat.; lower center in black ink: Venit insitio, fac Ramus, Ramum adoptet: / stetq[ue] peregrinis arbor operta comis.

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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