Plate 52: Blue Tit with Three Wading Birds and a Fig Tree, c. 1575/1580

Inscription

Center right in (gold?): LII.; birds in image numbered .1., .2., .3., and .4.
Facing page: Upper center in black ink: .1. / Rustica sum Perdix, quid refert, si sapor idem? / carior est Perdix, sic sapit illa magis.; lower center in black ink: Infanti melimela dato, fatuasqu[ue] mariscas, / Nam mihi qua nomit pungere Chia placet.

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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