Plate 10: Gray Crowned Crane and Helmeted Curassow, c. 1575/1580

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series Title

Animalia Volatilia et Amphibia (Aier)

Medium

watercolor and gouache, with oval border in gold, on vellum

Dimensions

page size (approximate): 14.3 x 18.4 cm (5 5/8 x 7 1/4 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Mrs. Lessing J. Rosenwald

Accession Number

1987.20.8.11

Artists / Makers

Joris Hoefnagel (artist) Flemish, 1542 - 1600

Image Use

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Inscription

Upper center in violet ink: QVI E NVCE NVCLEVM ESSE VVLT FRA[N]GAT / OPORTET. (“He who wants to eat the inside of the walnut breaks the shell [on the nut].” Erasmus, _Adages_, 2.9.35) (trans. Vignau-Wilberg 1994, 81); center right in (gold?): X.; birds in image numbered .1. and .2., in red ink; trees in image numbered .3. and .4., in red ink; lower center in (gold?): PHOENICI SIMILIS VIVIT POST FVNERA VIRTVS.
Facing page: Upper center in black ink: Et vinax phoenix unica semper avis.; lower center in black ink: En renovata suo vinit fuligine PHOENIX. / Et sua mox volucris (mirum) post busta resurgit.