Title Page, c. 1575/1580

Inscription

Upper center in cartouche in gold: .AIER.; center in black ink: ANIMALIA VOLATILIA ET AMPHIBIA.; center left in gold: G; center right in gold: H; lower center in cartouche in black ink: Qui ponis Nubem ascensum tuum: / Qui ambulas super pennas Ventorum. ("Who makes the clouds your chariot, who walks upon the wings of the winds." Psalms 103:3) (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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