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Inscription

upper center in (gold?): TVRTVRVM CONCORDIA CORNICVLAE VIVACITAS.; center right in (gold?): LXVI.; birds in image numbered .1., .2., .3., .4., .5., and .6., in red ink; on tree branch in image, in (gold?): Turture loquacior.; on roof tiles at right in image, in black ink: PRO COLVMBA PALV[M]BES.; lower center in red/violet ink: Quis dabit mihi pennas sicut COLVMBAE. / et volabo, et quiescam. ps: 54: (“Who will give me wings like a dove, and I will fly and be at rest?” Psalms 54:7) (Latin Vulgate Bible)

Provenance

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

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