Plate 46: Stone Marten, Chipmunk, and Moles with a Marigold and Lettuce, 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

1987.20.6.47

Artists / Makers

Joris Hoefnagel (artist) Flemish, 1542 - 1600

Image Use

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Inscription

upper center in black ink: Talpa bipes, alta semper tellure sepultus / Aspiciens
numq[uam], sublato lumine Coelum.; center right in black ink: XXXXVI.; animals in image numbered .1. and .2., in red ink; lower center in black ink: TERRAE FILII / .3.
Facing page: upper center in brown ink: Claudere que caenas Lactuca solebat avorum: / Dic mihi cur nostras inchoat illa dapes?; middle center in black ink: Vt cita vescenti veniunt oblivia Talpae: / sic praecibus subeunt impie vanatuis.; lower center in red ink: Letentur coeli, et exultet TERRA, co[m]moveatur mare et plenitudo ei[us]/ gaudebunt CAMPI, et omnia quae in eis sunt. psal 95: (“Let the heavens rejoice, and let the earth be glad; let the sea be moved and the fulness thereof. Let the field be joyful and all that is therein.” Psalms 95:11-12) (Latin Vulgate Bible)

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.