Plate 39: Three Puppies with a Crate and a Bunch of Grapes, 1580

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series Title

Animalia Qvadrvpedia et Reptilia (Terra)

Medium

watercolor and gouache, with oval border in gold, on vellum

Dimensions

page size (approximate): 14.3 x 18.4 cm (5 5/8 x 7 1/4 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Mrs. Lessing J. Rosenwald

Accession Number

1987.20.6.40

Artists / Makers

Joris Hoefnagel (artist) Flemish, 1542 - 1600

Image Use

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Inscription

upper center in black ink: ALITER CATVLI LONGE OLENT ALITER SVES.; center right in (gold?): XXXIX.; animals in image numbered .1. and .2., in red ink; on trough in lower left of image in (gold?): Ao.80; lower center in red ink: CATVLVS LEONEM.; lower center in black ink: VINVM novum Amicus novus, veterascet et cum iucunditate bibes illud. Ecc.[us] 9. (“A new friend is new wine; when it is old, you will drink it with pleasure.” Ecclesiasticus 9:15) (Latin Vulgate Bible)
Facing page: upper center in brown ink: Vt sapiant fatuae fabrorum prandia Betae / O, quam s[a]epe petet vina, piperq[ue] coquus.; lower center in brown ink:VINA sitim sedant, natis Venus alma creandis / serviat: hos fines transilysse nocet.