Plate 14: Spoonbill Crane and Flamingo, c. 1575/1580

Inscription

Upper center in (gold?): SIMILIS FACTVS SVM PELLICANO SOLITVDINIS / psal:101. (“I am like a pelican of the wilderness.” Psalms 101:7) (Latin Vulgate Bible); center right in (gold?): XIV.; birds in image numbered .1. and .2., in red ink; lower center in brown ink: Vt solet effuso PELLICANVS sanguine pullos / Pascere, et extinctis vita cruore venit. / Sic tu nate dei, manantibus undiq[ue] guttis. Humanji es generis gloria, vita, salus.
Facing page: Upper center in blue/black (?) ink: .2. / Dat mihi penna rubens nomen: sed lingua gulosis / Nostra placet; quid si garrula lingua foret?; lower center in violet ink: Et Scythicae volucres, et PHOENICOPTERVS ingens / Et getulus Orix, hebeti lautissima ferro / C[a]editur.

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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