Inscription
upper center in brown ink: .Serpente Ciconia pullos / Nutrit, et Inventa per devia rura Lacerta: / Illi eadem sumptis, quaerunt animalia Pennis. (“The stork feeds its young with the snake and with the lizard found in distant country. When they are fledged, they seek out the same animals [on the lizard].)” (trans. Vignau-Wilberg 1994, 73).; right center in brown/black ink: LII.; animals in image numbered .1., in red ink; lower center in blue/black ink: Versicolor coluber, ranas, miserasq[ue] Lacertas / Devorat, In sylvis foera fortior, ore minorem / Dilacerat. (“The colorful snake devours frogs and wretched lizards; in the woods the wild beast, being stronger, tears the smaller beast to shreds.”) (trans. Vignau-Wilberg 1994, 64)
Facing page: upper center in brown ink: Sed cunctas species animantum nemo notavit:/ Atq[ue] sonos ideo dicere quis poterit?; lower center in violet ink: Auxilium meum a Domino: qui fecit / Coelum et TERRAM. ps.120. (“My help comes from the Lord, who made heaven and earth.” Psalms 120:2) (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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- Title Page
- 1987.20.6.1
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- Plate 9: A Donkey and a Mule
- 1987.20.6.10
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- Plate 10: A Lion and a Civet Cat
- 1987.20.6.11
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- Plate 11: A Lioness with Two Lions in the Background
- 1987.20.6.12
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- Plate 12: A Cheetah(?) and a Wild Sheep
- 1987.20.6.13
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- Plate 13: A Tiger, a Lynx, and a Jaguar(?)
- 1987.20.6.14
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- Plate 14: A Civet, a Lynx, and a Hyena Eating a Dog
- 1987.20.6.15
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- Plate 15: A Bear and a Lynx(?)
- 1987.20.6.16
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- Plate 16: Wild Boar
- 1987.20.6.17
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- Plate 17: Old World Porcupine (Hystrix) and Wild Pig
- 1987.20.6.18
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- Plate 18: A Pig with Acorns
- 1987.20.6.19
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- Plate 1: Elephant with Insects
- 1987.20.6.2
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- Plate 19: Four Types of Stags
- 1987.20.6.20
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- Plate 20: Three Types of Stags with a Dormouse(?)
- 1987.20.6.21
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- Plate 21: Reindeer with Melons
- 1987.20.6.22
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- Plate 24: A Wild Goat and a Barbary Sheep(?)
- 1987.20.6.25
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- Plate 25: Two Wild Goats
- 1987.20.6.26
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- Plate 26: A Red Fox and a Wolf
- 1987.20.6.27
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- Plate 2: Two Giraffes with an Attendant
- 1987.20.6.3
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- Plate 30: Two Monkeys
- 1987.20.6.31
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- Plate 32: Two Monkeys on a Table
- 1987.20.6.33
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- Plate 33: A "Simivulpa" (Opossum?) and an Ibex
- 1987.20.6.34
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- Plate 34: Three Dogs, Including a "Mimick"
- 1987.20.6.35
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- Plate 35: A Hound and a Water Spaniel
- 1987.20.6.36
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- Plate 36: Two Spotted Hounds
- 1987.20.6.37
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- Plate 37: Two Spaniels with a Gourd
- 1987.20.6.38
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- Plate 38: Two Small Dogs with a Crown Imperial
- 1987.20.6.39
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- Plate 3: Camel, Ibex, and Goat
- 1987.20.6.4
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- Plate 40: Two Otters and a Beaver
- 1987.20.6.41
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- Plate 42: Two Genets or Civet Cats with Tulips
- 1987.20.6.43
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- Plate 43: Mongoose and Badger with Fruit Trees
- 1987.20.6.44
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- Plate 44: Polecat, Mink, and Ermine
- 1987.20.6.45
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- Plate 45: Weasels, a Ferret, and a "Nut Mouse"
- 1987.20.6.46
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- Plate 4: Llama and Moose
- 1987.20.6.5
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- Plate 56: Two Heads of Cabbage
- 1987.20.6.57
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- Plate 58: Asps and Vipers
- 1987.20.6.59
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- Plate 5: An Ox and a Camel
- 1987.20.6.6
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- Plate 59: Snakes and a Lizard
- 1987.20.6.60
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- Plate 60: Four Small Snakes
- 1987.20.6.61
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- Plate 61: Four Snails
- 1987.20.6.62
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- Plate 62: A Slug with Snails
- 1987.20.6.63
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- Plate 63: Seven Snails
- 1987.20.6.64
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- Plate 71: Empty Oval
- 1987.20.6.72
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- Plate 7: A Bull and a Horned Animal
- 1987.20.6.8
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- Plate 8: A Cow
- 1987.20.6.9