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Maker
Jacob Hoefnagel (Flemish, 1575 - c.a. 1630)
After Joris Hoefnagel (Netherlandish, 1542-1600), designer
Workshop of Theodor de Bry (Netherlandish, 1528-1598), engraver (printmaker)
Title
It is he who sits above the circle of the earth, and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers. Isaiah 40
from "Archetypa studiaque patris Georgii Hoefnagelii"
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Place Made: Frankfurt am Main; Place Made: Germany
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Sheet: 20.2 x 27.2 cm (7 15/16 x 10 11/16 inches)
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"Qui sedet super gyrum terrae et habitatores eius sunt sicut locustae Isa[ias] 40" (trans. Thea Vignau-Wilberg: It is he who sits above the circle of the earth, and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers. Isaiah 40, 22)bottom
"Sola perpetuo manent subiecta nulli mentis atque animi bona. florem decoris singuli carpunt dies" (trans. Thea Vignau-Wilberg: Only those goods are lasting that are subject to no one either in mind or in spirit. The flower of beauty withers day by day. [last line from Seneca, Octavia, 562]numbered 4 in the lower left corner and 1 in the lower right corner
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Credit
Walter H. Kimball Fund
Object Number
2006.117.3 Type
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After Joris Hoefnagel (Netherlandish, 1542-1600), designer
Workshop of Theodor de Bry (Netherlandish, 1528-1598), engraver (printmaker)
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