Plate 69: Black Woodpecker, European Green Woodpecker, Nuthatch, and Other Birds, c. 1575/1580

Inscription

center right in (gold?): LXIX.; birds in image numbered .1., .2., .3., .4., .5., .6., .7., and .8., in red ink
Facing page: upper center in black ink: Levius est studium, studium tamen Alite capta / Aut lino, aut calamis, praemia parva sequi.; lower center in red/violet ink: Dominus in templo sancto suo: Dominus / In COELO sedes eius. ps:10. (“The Lord is in his holy temple, the Lord’s throne is in heaven.” Psalms 10:5) (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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