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upper center in red ink: SIMIA NON CAPITVR LAQVEO; center right in black ink: XXXII.; animals in image numbered .1. and .2.; on tablecloth in image at right in (gold?): CAVDA ET BARBA HABIT SIMIA; lower center in violet/black ink: SIMIA IN PVRPVRA.
Facing page: upper center in brown ink: Laudationem domini loquetur os meum, et benedicat o[m/n]is / caro, nomini sancto eius, in seculum et seculu[m], seculi ps144 (“My mouth will speak the praise of the Lord: and let all flesh bless his holy name for ever and ever.” Psalms 144:21) (Latin Vulgate Bible); lower center in (gold?): Stat sua cuiq[ue] dies, breve, et irreparabile tempus / Omnibus est vitae. Sed famam extendere factis: / Hoc virtutis opus.

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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