Plate 32: Skates with an Egg Case and Two Flat Fish, c. 1575/1580

Inscription

upper center in blue ink: Dante te illis colligent: Aperiente te manu[m] / tuam, o[m/n]ia implebuntur bonitate ps:103. (“What you give to them they shall gather up; when you open your hand, they shall all be filled with good.” Psalms 103:28) (Latin Vulgate Bible);
fish in image numbered .1., .2., .3., and .4., in red ink; shells in image numbered .5., .6., and .7., in red ink; center right in (gold?): XXXII.; lower center in blue ink: Auferente autem te faciem, turbabuntur: auferes spiritum eorum / et deficient, et in pulverem suum revertentur ps:103. (“But if you turn away your face, they shall be troubled; you shall take away their breath, and they shall fail, and shall return to their dust.” Psalms 103:29) (Latin Vulgate Bible)
Facing page: upper center in blue ink: Ampliat aetatis spatium tutissima virtus: / Omne solum bono Patria est ut piscibus Aequor.; lower center in red/violet ink: Ego sapientia girum coeli circuivi sola, et profundum / MARIS penetravi, et in fluctibus maris ambulavi, et / in omni terra steti .Ecc[us].24. (“I wisdom alone have compassed the circuit of heaven and have penetrated into the bottom of the sea and have walked in the waves of the sea. And have stood in all the earth.” Ecclesiasticus 24:8 and 9) (Latin Vulgate Bible)

Provenance

Emperor Rudolph of Austria; Lessing J. Rosenwald, Alverthorpe, PA; gift to NGA, 1987.

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