Inscription
Upper center in black ink: VBICVNQVE FVERIT CORPVS IBI CO[N]GREGABV[N]TVR AQVILAE. (“Wheresoever the body shall be, there shall the eagles also be gathered together.” Matthew 24:28) (Latin Vulgate Bible); center right in (gold?): .III.; birds in image numbered .1. and .2., in red ink; lower center in violet ink: Tria sunt difficilia mihi, et quartum penitus I[g]noro: Viam / AQVILAE in Caelo: viam Colubri super terram: viam navis / In medio maris: Et viam viri In Adolescentia. Proverb.30. (“Three things are hard to me, and the fourth I am utterly ignorant of. The way of an eagle in the air, The way of a serpent on a rock, The way of a ship in the middle of the sea, And the way of a man in youth.” Proverbs 30:18-19) (Latin Vulgate Bible)
Facing page: Upper center in black ink: sed carmina tantum / Nostra valent, Lycida, tela Inter Martia qua[n]tum / CSaonias dicunt Aquilae veniente columbas.; lower center in black ink: Dum Clangunt Aquilae: Vultur pulpareprobatur: / Et crocitat corvus: graculus at frigulat.
Provenance
Emperor Rudolph of Austria; Lessing J. Rosenwald, Alverthorpe, PA; gift to NGA, 1987.
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- Title Page
- 1987.20.8.1
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- Plate 9: Two Pheasants with Fruiting Plants
- 1987.20.8.10
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- Plate 10: Gray Crowned Crane and Helmeted Curassow
- 1987.20.8.11
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- Plate 12: Pair of Wood Grouse with a Melon and Pears
- 1987.20.8.13
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- Plate 13: Two Curly Gray Chickens (Silkie Chickens?)
- 1987.20.8.14
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- Plate 14: Spoonbill Crane and Flamingo
- 1987.20.8.15
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- Plate 15: Common Crane and Bittern(?)
- 1987.20.8.16
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- Plate 18: Heron and Stork
- 1987.20.8.19
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- Plate 1: Two Ostriches and a Starling
- 1987.20.8.2
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- Plate 19: Two Great Egrets with Green Breeding Masks
- 1987.20.8.20
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- Plate 20: A Plover with Four Other Birds
- 1987.20.8.21
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- Plate 22: Two White Pelicans with a Sycamore Fig
- 1987.20.8.23
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- Plate 24: Two Swans, a Kingfisher, and a Bullfinch
- 1987.20.8.25
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- Plate 26: Cormorant and Coot
- 1987.20.8.27
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- Plate 2: Two Eagles
- 1987.20.8.3
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- Plate 29: Geese with Poppies and a Cyclamen
- 1987.20.8.30
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- Plate 31: Duck, Merganser, and Three Goldfinches
- 1987.20.8.32
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- Plate 40: European Bee-Eater and Exotic Chicken
- 1987.20.8.41
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- Plate 44: Godwit(?) and Sandpipers with Two Gourds
- 1987.20.8.45
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- Plate 45: Spotted Nutcracker and Shore Birds
- 1987.20.8.46
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- Plate 47: Shore Birds with a Perching Bird
- 1987.20.8.48
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- Plate 50: An Avocet with Two Other Birds
- 1987.20.8.51
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- Plate 59: Curlew and Crow with Horse Skull
- 1987.20.8.60
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- Plate 60: Magpie, Crow, and Goldfinch
- 1987.20.8.61
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- Plate 64: Two Partridges, a Wren, and Other Birds
- 1987.20.8.65
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- Plate 65: Thrushes and Other Birds
- 1987.20.8.66
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- Plate 66: Doves and Pigeons
- 1987.20.8.67
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- Plate 67: Two Doves beneath a Gourd and Apples
- 1987.20.8.68
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- Plate 68: A Ptarmigan, Swallows, and Other Birds
- 1987.20.8.69
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- Plate 70: Empty Oval
- 1987.20.8.71
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- Plate 72: Empty Oval
- 1987.20.8.72
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- Plate 7: Four Birds of Prey on a Wooden Frame
- 1987.20.8.8
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- Plate 8: Bearded Vulture with Two Birds of Prey
- 1987.20.8.9