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Inscription

Upper center in black ink: Melius est in corvos quam in adulatores incidere: Hi enim vinentes, illi / mortuos exedunt./ in red ink: MALI CORVI MALVM OVVM.; center right in (gold?): LIX.; birds in image numbered .1. and .2.; lower center in (gold?): Quis praeparat CORVO escam suam quando pulli eius / clamant ad deum, vagientes eo quod non habeant / Cibos. Job 38. (“Who provides the raven with her food? When her young ones cry to God, wandering about, because they have no meat.” Job 38:41) (Latin Vulgate Bible)
Facing page: upper center in black ink: Sed tacitus pasci si posset Corvus Haberet, / Plus dapis, et rixa multo minus Invidieq[ue].; lower center in black ink: Est aliquid quo tendis, et in quod dirigis arcum? / An passim corvuos sequeris, testaq[ue], lutoq[ue]? / Securos quo pes ferat; etq[ue] ex tempore vivis?

Provenance

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

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