Plate 20: Three Types of Stags with a Dormouse(?), 1575/1580

Inscription

upper center in light red ink: NE CAPREA CONTRA LEONEM.; center right in black ink: XX.; animals in image numbered .1., .2., .3., and .4. in red ink: lower center in black ink: .3. / EX LONGAEVO PRVDENTIA.
Facing page: upper center in brown ink: Aperies tu manum tuam; et imples / omne animal benedictione ps: 144. (“You open your hand and fill with blessing every living creature.” Psalms 144:16) (Latin Vulgate Bible); lower center in (gold?): Scit bene venator, Cervis ubi retia tendat: / Scit bene, qua frendens valle moretur Aper.

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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