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upper center in black/brown ink: Quae genuit Tigres, qua nutrit Terra Leones: / Formicis, Apibus, praebuit ipsa sinum; upper center in blue ink: A FRONTE PRAECIPITIV[M] A TERGO FERAE.; center right in black ink: XIII.; animals in image numbered .1., .2., and .3., in red ink; cactus in image numbered .4., in red ink; lower center in black ink: Indica TIGRIS agit rabida cum Tigride Pacem / Perpetuam: saevis inter se convenit ursis.
Facing page: upper center in red/violet ink: A solis ortu usq[ue] ad occasum laudabile nome[n] DOMINI.ps.112. (“From the rising of the sun unto the going down of the same the Lord’s name is worthy of praise.” Psalms 112:3) (Latin Vulgate Bible); middle center in black ink: Venator catulos Tigri rapit, illa citato / Insequitur cursu, furtaq[ue] pendit equus. / Tantus amor prolis, rabies, et vindicis ira / Tanta ferae, foetus et reperire labor.; lower center in brown ink: Vindicat ablatum catulum nece saeva caballi / Tigris, quem liquit littore, praedo fugax. / Exprimut in sobolem fidissima corda parentum: / Atq[ue] quod hic patrat criminis, ille luit. A:S. (Stockelius?)

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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