Plate 33: A Pair of Bohemian Waxwings, a Shelduck(?), and a Brant Goose with a Ginger Plant, c. 1575/1580

Inscription

Upper center in red ink: SATIS QVERCVS.; center right in (gold?): XXXIII.; birds in image numbered .1., .2., .3., and .4., in red ink; vegetation in image numbered .5. and .6., in red ink; lower center in violet/purple ink: FRVGIBVS INVENTIS, NE VESCARIS GLANDE.
Facing page: Upper center in black ink: Tuus est dies, et tua est nox: tu fabricatus / es Auroram et Solem ps: 73 – (“The day is yours and the night is yours, you have made the morning light and the sun.” Psalms 73:16) (Latin Vulgate Bible); lower center in black ink: Multis ictibus deycitur Quercus

Provenance

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

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