Plate 8: A Cow, c. 1575/1580

Inscription

upper center in red ink: SI BOVEM NON POSSIS, ASINVM AGAS.; center right in brown/black ink: VIII.; animal in image numbered .1.; lower center in (gold?): BOS IN LINGVA.
Facing page: upper center in brown ink: Fertilior seges est alieno semper in agro / vicinumq[ue] pecus, grandius uber habet.; lower center in brown ink: Non equa munus equum, non taurum Vacca poposcit: / Non aries placitam, munere captat onem.

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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