Title Page, c. 1575/1580

Inscription

upper center in cartouche in (gold?): TERRA.; center in black ink: ANIMALIA / QVADRVPEDIA / ET / REPTILIA.; center left in (gold?): G; center right in (gold?) HF; lower center in black ink: Qui fundasti terra[m] super stabilitatem tuam: / Non
co[m]movebitur In seculum seculi. ("Who has founded the earth upon its own bases: it shall not be moved for ever and ever." Psalms 103:5) (Latin Vulgate Bible)

Provenance

Emperor Rudolph of Austria; Lessing J. Rosenwald, Alverthorpe, PA; 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.

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