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Inscription

upper in center in violet ink: TAVRVM TOLLET, QVI VITVLVM SVSTVLERIT.; center right in black ink: VII.; cartouche at center right in image in (gold?): Lignum tortu[m] / haud /
unq[uem] rectum.; animals in image numbered .1. and .2., in red ink; lower center in red ink: FOENVM HABET IN CORNV.
Facing page: upper center in brown ink: Lux est Taurus arat: Nox est requiescit arator: / Liberat emerito, fervida colla bovi.; lower center in (gold?): Non facile est Taurum, visa retinere iuvenca: / Fortis equus visae semper adhinnit equae.

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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