Plate 5: An Ox and a Camel, c. 1575/1580

Inscription

upper center in (gold?): BOS LASSVS FORTIVS FIGIT PEDEM.; right center in gold: V.; animals in image numbered .1. and .2., in red ink; lower center in red ink: CAMELVM DEGLVTIVNT QVI CVLICE[M] COLANT.
Facing page: upper center in brown ink: In te inimicos nostros ventilabimus cornu; / Et in no[m]i[n]e tuo spergemus insurgentes in nos.ps:43.( “Through you will we push down our enemies: through your name will we despise them that rise up against us.” Psalms 43:6) (Latin Vulgate Bible); lower center in black ink: Producens Terra foenum iumentis, et herbam / servituti hominum ps: 103. (“Bringing forth grass for cattle and herb for the service of men.” Psalms 103:14) (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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