Plate 18: A Pig with Acorns, c. 1575/1580

Inscription

upper center in red ink: QVID CVM AMARACINO SVI?; center right in black ink: XVIII.; animal in image numbered .1., in red ink; lower center in (gold?): SVS LOTA AD VOLVTABRVM. COENI
Facing page: upper center in brown ink: Iste tibi faciat bona Saturnalia porcus: / Inter spumantes ilice pastus Apros.; lower center in brown ink: Sordida Sus pascens ruris per grannina grunnit / At mutire capris, hirce petulce soles.

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.

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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