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Upper center in red ink: QVAE VNCIS SVNT VNGVIBVS, NE NVTRIAS.; center right in black ink: IV.; birds in image numbered .1., .2. and .3., in red ink; plant in image numbered .4., in red ink; lower/center left on rock, in black ink: Ao.80; lower center in violet ink: AQVILAE SENECTA.
Facing page: Upper center in (gold?): Numquid ad praeceptum tuu[m] elevabitur AQVILA. / Et In arduis ponet nidum suum? Job.39. (“Does the eagle mount up at thy command, and make her nest on high?” Job 39:27-30) (Latin Vulgate Bible); lower center in black ink: Qui replet In bonis desiderium tuum: Renovabitur / Vt AQVILAE iuventus tua Ps: 102. (“Who satisfies your mouth with good things; so that your youth is renewed like the eagle’s.” Psalms 102:5) (Latin Vulgate Bible)

Provenance

Emperor Rudolph of Austria; Lessing J. Rosenwald, Alverthorpe, PA; gift to NGA, 1987.

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