Inscription
Upper center in (gold?): In cogitatione tua Regi ne detrahas, et In secreto cubile tui ne / maledixeris diviti, quia et AVES Coeli portabu[n]t voce[m] tuam.Ecc[es] 10. (“Detract not the king, no not in your thought; and speak not evil of the rich man in your private chamber: because even the birds of the air will carry your voice.” Ecclesiastes 10:20) (Latin Vulgate Bible); center right in (gold?) XXXII; birds in image numbered .1., .2., .3., and .4., in red ink
Facing page: Upper center in black ink: Parua loquax Volucris divum te Voce saluto / Si me non Videris esse negabis avem. / co[n]venit magis Picis [not deciphered] 79.; lower center in red/violet ink: Magna est super COELOS misericordia tua; Et / usq[ue] ad nubes veritas tua.ps: 107. (“For your mercy is great above the heavens and your truth even unto the clouds.” Psalms 107:5) (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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- Title Page
- 1987.20.8.1
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- Plate 9: Two Pheasants with Fruiting Plants
- 1987.20.8.10
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- Plate 10: Gray Crowned Crane and Helmeted Curassow
- 1987.20.8.11
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- Plate 12: Pair of Wood Grouse with a Melon and Pears
- 1987.20.8.13
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- Plate 13: Two Curly Gray Chickens (Silkie Chickens?)
- 1987.20.8.14
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- Plate 14: Spoonbill Crane and Flamingo
- 1987.20.8.15
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- Plate 15: Common Crane and Bittern(?)
- 1987.20.8.16
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- Plate 18: Heron and Stork
- 1987.20.8.19
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- Plate 1: Two Ostriches and a Starling
- 1987.20.8.2
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- Plate 19: Two Great Egrets with Green Breeding Masks
- 1987.20.8.20
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- Plate 20: A Plover with Four Other Birds
- 1987.20.8.21
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- Plate 22: Two White Pelicans with a Sycamore Fig
- 1987.20.8.23
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- Plate 24: Two Swans, a Kingfisher, and a Bullfinch
- 1987.20.8.25
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- Plate 26: Cormorant and Coot
- 1987.20.8.27
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- Plate 2: Two Eagles
- 1987.20.8.3
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- Plate 29: Geese with Poppies and a Cyclamen
- 1987.20.8.30
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- Plate 31: Duck, Merganser, and Three Goldfinches
- 1987.20.8.32
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- Plate 3: Two Hawks
- 1987.20.8.4
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- Plate 40: European Bee-Eater and Exotic Chicken
- 1987.20.8.41
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- Plate 44: Godwit(?) and Sandpipers with Two Gourds
- 1987.20.8.45
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- Plate 45: Spotted Nutcracker and Shore Birds
- 1987.20.8.46
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- Plate 47: Shore Birds with a Perching Bird
- 1987.20.8.48
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- Plate 50: An Avocet with Two Other Birds
- 1987.20.8.51
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- Plate 59: Curlew and Crow with Horse Skull
- 1987.20.8.60
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- Plate 60: Magpie, Crow, and Goldfinch
- 1987.20.8.61
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- Plate 64: Two Partridges, a Wren, and Other Birds
- 1987.20.8.65
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- Plate 65: Thrushes and Other Birds
- 1987.20.8.66
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- Plate 66: Doves and Pigeons
- 1987.20.8.67
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- Plate 67: Two Doves beneath a Gourd and Apples
- 1987.20.8.68
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- Plate 68: A Ptarmigan, Swallows, and Other Birds
- 1987.20.8.69
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- Plate 70: Empty Oval
- 1987.20.8.71
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- Plate 72: Empty Oval
- 1987.20.8.72
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- Plate 7: Four Birds of Prey on a Wooden Frame
- 1987.20.8.8
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- Plate 8: Bearded Vulture with Two Birds of Prey
- 1987.20.8.9