Plate 49: Gulls with a Carob Tree and a Pistachio Tree(?), c. 1575/1580

Inscription

Upper center in (gold?): LARVS PARTVRIT.; center right in (gold?): XXXXIX.; birds in image numbered .1., .2., .3., .4., and .5., in red ink; trees in image numbered .6. and .7., in red ink; lower center in violet ink: LARVS HIAT.
Facing page: Upper center in red ink: Omne adeo genus In terris hominumq[ue] ferarumq[ue], / Et genus Aequoreum, pecudes, pict[a]eq[ue] volucres / In furias,
ignemq[ue] ruunt: Amor omnibus idem.

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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