Plate 51: Crossbeak, Chough, Bee-Eater, and Other Birds, c. 1575/1580

Inscription

Upper center in violet/blue ink: OMNIBVS GALERITIS OPORTET CRISTAM INESSE.; center right in (gold?): LI.; birds in image numbered .1., .2., .3., .4., .5., .6., .7., and .8., in red ink; lower center in red ink: SEMPER GRACVLVS ASSIDET GRACVLO.
Facing page: Upper center in black ink: .6. / Inter Indoctos etiam Corydus sonat.; lower center in black ink: Regulus atq[ue] Merops, et rubro pectore Progne / consimili modo Zinzilulare sciunt.

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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