Plate 62: A Slug with Snails, c. 1575/1580

Inscription

upper center in red ink: PRIVS COCHLEA LEPOREM.; center right in brown ink: LXII.; animals in image numbered .1. and .2., in red ink
Facing page: upper center in brown ink: Laudent illum Coeli et Terra: mare / et o[m/n]ia reptilia in eis. ps: 68: (“Let the heaven and earth praise him, the sea and everything that moves therein.” Psalms 68:35) (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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