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Inscription

Fish in image numbered .1., .2., .3., .4., .5., and .6.; center right in brown ink: XV.
Facing page: upper center in red ink: Ecce in increpatione mea desertum faciam MARE, / Ponam flumina in siccum, conputrescent pisces / sine aqua, et morientur in siti Isa 50. (“Behold at my rebuke I will make the sea a desert, I will turn the rivers into dry land; the fishes shall rot for want of water, and shall die for thirst.” Isaiah 50:2) (Latin Vulgate Bible); lower center in violet (green?) ink: Dulce mari magno Turbantibus Aequora ventis / E terra alterius magnum spectare laborem.

Provenance

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

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