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Sheet with Lizard (part III, plate 5) - Image 1
Sheet with Lizard (part III, plate 5) - Image 2
Public Domain

Jacob Hoefnagel and Georg (Joris) Hoefnagel

Sheet with Lizard (part III, plate 5)

1591

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Sheet with Lizard (part III, plate 5)

1591

Physical Qualities Engraving, Sheet: 267 x 358 mm. (10 1/2 x 14 1/8 in.) Plate: 153 x 210 mm. (6 x 8 1/4 in.)
Credit Line Blanche Adler Memorial Fund
Object Number 2002.3
The Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase, 2002; R.E. Lewis & Daughter, San Rafael, California
Susan Dackerman, BMA, 'Painted Prints: The Revelation of Color,' Oct. 6, 2002 -Jan. 5, 2003

Signed: 1

Inscribed: RECTO: in matrix: UC: 'presetinqu Deum qualibet herba refert'; LWRC: 'Serpente Ciconia pullos/ Nutrit, et inuenta per deuia rura Lacerta/ flli eadem sumptis, quaerunt animalia pennis'; BLC: '5'; BRC: '3'

Markings: Shield with cross?

Artist and Publisher

Jacob Hoefnagel

b. 1574

Flemish, 1575-c. 1630
Meet Jacob Hoefnagel

Artist

Georg (Joris) Hoefnagel

1541–1599

Flemish, 1542-1600
Meet Georg (Joris) Hoefnagel

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