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upper center in red ink: SIMIARVM PVLCHRRA: DEFORMIS EST.; center right in black ink: XXIX.; animals in image numbered .1., .2., and .3., in red ink; on ledge in image at lower right in (gold?) and black ink: SIMIA SEMPER SIMIA. 1575.; lower center in black ink: AVT CVCVRBITAM, AVT CVCVRBITAE FLORE[M].
Facing page: upper center in brown ink: Gangetis sapido celebrator Simia gustu.; middle center in black ink: Infelix animal quod se virtute, dolisue / Aequiparare cupit mortalibus, bis dedit unis / Ingenium velox, divino semine natis / Maximus ille opifex qui nutu temperat orbem. / Et quantum superi praestant mortalibus ipsi, / Tantum mortales praestant animalibus istis.; lower center in brown ink: Sicut TERRA profert GERMEN suum: sic Dominus Deus / germinabit iustitiam, et laudem cora[m] universis gentibus. / Isaias.61. (“For as the earth brings forth her bud so the Lord God will cause righteousness and praise to spring forth before all the nations.” Isaiah 61:11) (Latin Vulgate Bible)

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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