Plate 6: A Variety of Oxen with a Ram and a Water Buffalo(?) by a Plane Tree, c. 1575/1580

Inscription

upper center in black ink: EQVVS IN QVADRIGIS, IN ARATRO BOS.; center right in black ink: VI.; animals in image numbered .1., .2., .3., and .4., in red ink; tree in image numbered .5., in red ink; lower center in black ink: NON NOSTRVM ONVS, BOS CLITELLAS.
Facing page: upper center in brown ink: Obsequium tigresq[ue] domat, Tumidosq[ue] leones: / Rustica paulatim, Taurus aratra subit.; lower center in (gold?): Quam Platanus rivo gaudet, quam populus unda; / Et quam limosa canna palustris humo: / Tam Venus otia amat: qui finem quaeris amoris, / cedit amor rebus: Res age: tutus eris.

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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