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upper center in red ink: Sepia tarda fugae, tenui cum forte sub unda / Deprensa est, iam tamq[ue] manus timet illa rapaces: / Inficiens aequor nigrum vomit illa cruorem, /
Avertitq[ue] vices, oculos frustrata sequentes. / .6.; creatures in image numbered .1., .2., .3, .4., .5., .6., .7., .8., .9., .10., .11., and .12. in red ink; center right in brown ink: LIII.; lower center in red ink: At contra scopulis crinali corpore sequis / Polypus h[a]eret, et hac eludit retia frande: / Et sub lege loci sumit mutatq[ue] colorem, / semper ei similis, quem contigit. / .4.
Facing page: upper center in blue ink: Quis satiabitur videns gloriam eius? Ecc 42. (“Who shall be filled with beholding his glory?”) Ecclesiasticus 42:26) (Latin Vulgate Bible); lower center in black ink: Nunc quoq[ue] CORALIIS eadem natura remansit. / Duriciem tacto capiant ut ab aere: quodque / Vimen in [a]equore erat, fiat super [a]ethera saxum.

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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