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lower left, in image, in plate: HG. fecit; in margin below image, in plate: Magnanimo Coruine tibi grato omine Coruus / Fert opem; atrox Gallus sanguine foedat humum. / Schilicet et Fortuna fauet praestantibus ausis, / Et tangunt magnos fortia facta Deos. F. [ranco] E.[stius] (Noble Corvinus, the Raven gives you help with a congenial portent; the savage Gaul defiles the soil with his blood. Fortune sides with those who try to achieve something great and the great Gods are touched by brave deeds.) [Latin translation from Leeflang, Huigen, and Ger Luijten. _Hendrick Goltzius (1558-1617): Drawings, Prints and Paintings._ Amsterdam: Rijksmuseum, 2003, p. 90.]

Bibliography

1921
Hirschmann, Otto. Verzeichnis des graphischen Werks von Hendrick Goltzius (1558-1617) mit Benutzung der durch E.W. Moest hinterlassenen Notizen zusammengestellt. Leipzig: Verlag von Klinkhardt und Biermann, 1921. Reprint. Braunschweig: Klinkhardt &Bie
1993
The New Hollstein Dutch & Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts, 1450-1700. Rotterdam: Sound & Vision Interactive, 1996-: no. 169.

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