Plate 54: An Owl, with a Second in the Distance Eating a Rabbit, c. 1575/1580

Inscription

Upper center in black/blue ink: Non mare non tellus, non aer tutus, ubiq[ue] / Hostis adest: prodestq[ue] parum non esse nocentem.; center right in (gold?): LIV.; owl in image numbered .1., in red ink; trees in image numbered .2. and .3.
Facing page: Upper center in blue/black ink: Bubulat horrendum ferali carmine bubo, / Humano generi tristia fata ferens.; lower center in red/violet ink: Pallas quas condidit arces / Ipsa colat, nobis placeant ante o[m/n]ia sylvae.

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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