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Inscription

Upper center in violet ink: SENEX PSITTACVS NEGLIGIT FERVLA[M].; center right in (gold?): LVII.; birds in image numbered .1. and .2.; on perch in image, in (gold?): Ao.76 ANVER PIAE.
Facing page: upper center in black ink: Psittacus humanas depromit voce loquelas, /
Atq[ue] suo domino Xay[m/n]e, Valeq[ue] sonat.; lower center in brown ink: Quis expediunt Psyttaco suum Xay[mn]e? / Picasq[ue] docuit nostra verba conari? / Magister artis, Ingeniiq[ue] largitor / Venter, negatas artifex sequi voces.

Provenance

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

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