Plate 30: Two Monkeys, c. 1575/1580

Inscription

upper center in (gold?): NON PLVRIS QVAM SIMIAS.; center right in black ink: XXX; animals in image numbered .1. and .2.
Facing page: upper center in (gold?): Callidus emissas eludere simius hastas: / si mihi cauda foret, cercopithecus era[m].; lower center in violet ink: Posuit timorem hominis super omnem Carnem: et dominatus / est bestiarum, et volatilium. sapi.17. (“He put the fear of him upon all flesh, and he had dominion over beasts and fowls.” Ecclesiasticus 17:4) (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.

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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