Plate 60: Magpie, Crow, and Goldfinch, c. 1575/1580

Inscription

Upper center in violet ink: PICA CVM LVSCINIA.; center right in (gold?): LX.; birds in image numbered .1., .2., and .3., in red ink; lower center in brown ink (gold?): Quod si dolosi spes refulserit nummi: / corvos poetas, et Poetridas PICAS. / cantare credas Pegaseum melos.
Facing page: upper center in black ink: Pica loquax, certa dominum te voce saluto; / Si me non videas, esse negabis avem.; lower center in black ink: Pica loquax varios, modulatur gutture voces, / scurriliter strepitu, quidquid et audit ait.

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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