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Upper center in (gold?): AQVILA IN NVBIBVS. (“An eagle in the clouds.” Erasmus, _Opera Omnia_, 2:2:342 (1.9.20) (trans. Bass 2019, 22); center right in (gold?): .II.; birds in image numbered .1. and .2., in red ink; center right on stone block in image, in black ink: GESTABVNT TIMIDAS ALIORVM SCVTA COLVMBAS : / MAGNANIMI CLYPIVM CAESARIS ISTA DECENT. (“The shields of others will carry timid doves; those [eagles] of yours [alone] fit the shield of magnanimous Caesar.”) (trans. Bass 2019, 21); lower center on rock in image, in black ink: .G.HF.Ao.76.; lower center in red ink: AQVILA NON CAPTAT MVSCAS.
Facing page: Upper center in black ink: Ne erigas oculos tuos ad opes, quas no[n] potes habere: quia / faciunt sibi pennas quali Aquilae, et volabunt In Coelum; lower center in black ink: Tentanda via est, qua me quoq[ue] possum / Tollere humo, via q[ue] virum volitare supra ora.

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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