Plate 41: Two Types of Armadillos with a Marmoset, a Coconut Palm, and a Pepper Plant, c. 1575/1580

Inscription

upper center in red ink: PRINCIPVM PRECES:; center right in (gold?): XXXXI; animals in image numbered .1. and .2., in red ink; coconut palm in image numbered .3., in red ink; pepper plant in image numbered .4., in red ink; lower center in black ink: PRECES ARMATAE.
Facing page: upper center in brown ink: Laudate Caeli et exultet Terra / Jubilate MONTES laudem Isa 49. (“Give praise, O ye heavens, and rejoice, O earth, ye mountains, give praise with jubilation.” Isaiah 49:13) (Latin Vulgate Bible)

Provenance

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

Bibliography

2014

Rikken, Marrigje. "A Spanish Album of Drawings of Animals in a South-Netherlandish Context: a Reattribution to Lambert Lombard" The Rijksmuseum Bulletin 62 (2014): 12-13.

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