Plate 5: A Hooded Falcon and Its Wild Counterpart, c. 1575/1580

Inscription

Center right in (gold?): .V.; birds in image numbered .1., in red ink.
Facing page: Upper center in red ink: Quis ante dedit mihi, ut reddam ei? O[m/n]ia quae / sub Coelo sunt, mea sunt. Job 41 (“Who has given me before that I should repay him? All things that are under heaven are mine.” Job 41:2) (Latin Vulgate Bible); lower center in black ink: Laudate dominum bestiae, et universa pecora, / serpentes, et volucres pennatae. ps.148. (“Praise the Lord, beasts and all cattle, serpents and feathered fowls.” Psalms 148:7 & 10) (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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