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upper center in black ink: Quo non protrabitur pellis robusta Leonis / Est vulpis iungenda: facit solertia vires.; upper center in violet ink: CAVDA DE VVLPE TESTATVR. (“A fox is given away by his tail.” Erasmus, _Adages_, 1.9.35) (trans. Bass 2019, 207); center right in black ink: XXVII.; animals in image numbered .1., .2., .3., and .4.; banderole/scroll at left in image in red ink: cu[m] vulpe vulpina[m] dum.; lower center in (gold?): ANNOSA VVLPES HAVD CAPITVR LAQVEO.
Facing page: upper center in red ink: Omnis caro sicut foenum verterascet: et sicut FOLIVM / fructificans in arbore viridi.Ecc[es]:14. (“All flesh shall fade as grass, and as the leaf that springs out on a green tree.” Ecclesiasticus 14:18) (Latin Vulgate Bible); middle center in black ink: Subdola, saeva, rapax, Inventrix mille malorum / Corpore quot pili, totidem sunt pectore fraudes.; lower center in brown ink: Dum lynces orcando fremunt: ursus f[a]erus uncat: Ast Lupus ipse ululat: frendet agrestis aper.

Provenance

Emperor Rudolf II of Austria?[1]; Secretarius Heinrich Hagen, Vienna, 1611.[2] Count Emanuel Maria Joseph von Arco, Munich, 1751.[3] Graf von Seinsheim, canon of Salzburg and Speyer, 1753. Master stonemason Rüpfel, Munich, c. 1830. Joseph Anton Niggl [1792 - 1842], Markt Tölz. Karl August von Brentano [1817 - 1896], Augsburg. (sale, Rudolph Weigel, 28 October 1861, no. 2220-a-d]; (Frederick Startridge Ellis [active 1860 - 1885], London; formerly identified as F. S. Eliot)[3]; Henry Huth [1815 - 1878], London; by descent to his son, Alfred Henry Huth [1850 - 1910], London; (sale, Sotheby's' London, 12 June 1913, no. 3722); (William Wesley & Son, London); Charles Francis George Richard Schwerdt, Old Alresford House, Hampshire (his sale, Sotheby's' London, 15 July 1946, no. 2216); (The Rosenbach Company, Philadelphia); Lessing J. Rosenwald, Jenkintown; given to Edith Goodkind Rosenwald, Jenkintown; 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.

Bibliography

1984
Hendrix, Lee. Joris Hoefnagel and the Four Elements: a Study in Sixteenth-Century Nature Painting. Ph.D. Hendrix, Lee. Joris Hoefnagel and the Four Elements: a Study in Sixteenth-Century Nature Painting. Ph.D. dissertation, Princeton University, 1984 (series).dissertation, Princeton University, 1984 (series).
2017
Vignau-Wilberg, Thea. Joris and Jacob Hoefnagel: Art and Science around 1600. Berlin, 2017: no. A6 (for series).
2019
Bass, Marisa Ann. Insect Artifice: Nature and Art in the Dutch Revolt. Princeton, 2019 (for series).

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