Plate 15: A Bear and a Lynx(?), c. 1575/1580

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series Title

Animalia Qvadrvpedia et Reptilia (Terra)

Medium

watercolor and gouache, with oval border in gold, on vellum

Dimensions

page size (approximate): 14.3 x 18.4 cm (5 5/8 x 7 1/4 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Mrs. Lessing J. Rosenwald

Accession Number

1987.20.6.16

Artists / Makers

Joris Hoefnagel (artist) Flemish, 1542 - 1600

Image Use

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Inscription

upper center in blue ink: CVM ADSIT VRSVS, VESTIGIA QVERIS.; center right in black ink: XV.; animals in image numbered .1. and .2., in red ink; trees in image numbered .3. and .4., in red ink; lower center in red ink: FVMANS VRSI NASVS NON TENTANDVS.
Facing page: upper center in brown ink: Expedit magis ursae occurrere raptis foetibus: / quam fatuo confidenti sibi in stultitia sua.; middle center in black ink: Saevis inter se convenit ursis / Ast homini ferrum lethale iucude nefanda / Produxisse parum est.; lower center in brown ink: Foedus Lucanis pronoluitur Vrsus ab antris: / Quid nisi pondus iners, stolid[a]eq[ue] ferocia mentis.

Provenance

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

Associated Names

Rosenwald, Lessing J., Mrs.

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.