Plate 40: European Bee-Eater and Exotic Chicken, c. 1575/1580

Inscription

Center right in (gold?): XXXX.; birds in image numbered .1. and .2., in red ink
Facing page: Upper center in red/violet ink: DEVS NOSTER IN COELO omnia / qu[a]ecumq[ue] voluit fecit ps:113. (“Our God is in heaven; he has done all things whatsoever he would.” Psalms 113:11) (Latin Vulgate Bible); lower center in blue/black ink: Qui aedificat in COELO ascensionem suam, et / fasciculum suum super terra fundavit.Amos.9. / dominus nomen eius. (“He that builds his ascension in heaven and has founded his bundle upon the earth...The Lord is his name.” Amos 9:6) (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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