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Jacob Hoefnagel, designer

Riddle: my skin is red, and white liquid is hidden within (Aenigma: Rubra mihi cutis est, latet intus niveus humor), 1592

Description

Maker

  • After Joris Hoefnagel, 1542-1600, Netherlandish, associated artist/maker
  • Possibly Theodor de Bry, 1528-1598, Netherlandish, associated artist/maker
  • Jacob Hoefnagel, Flemish, designer

Title

Riddle: my skin is red, and white liquid is hidden within (Aenigma: Rubra mihi cutis est, latet intus niveus humor)

Year

1592

Medium

Engraving on paper

Materials/Techniques

Materials

  • ink

Supports

  • paper

Dimensions

Plate: 15.5 x 20.9 cm (6 1/8 x 8 1/4 inches)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

top: "Aenigma / Rubra mihi cutis est, latet intus niveus humor,
os pro corde gero, semen et illud habet" (trans. Thea Vignau-Wilberg: Riddle: my skin is red, and white liquird is hidden within. I have a mouth instead of heart, and it bears seads [on the mushroom].

bottom: "Rumpimus altricem tenero de vertice terram
Tubem: boletis proxima poma sumus" (trans. Thea Vignau-Wilberg: We truffles purst the nourishing earth with our tender heads. We are a fruit similar to the mushroom)

numbered 7 lower left, and 3 lower right.

Identification

State

I/VI

Place

Frankfurt; Germany

Type

  • Works on Paper,
  • Work on Paper

Credit

Walter H. Kimball Fund

Object Number

2006.117.1

Related

Jacob Hoefnagel

The locusts have no king, yet all of them march in rank. Proverbs 30, 27, 1592

Jacob Hoefnagel

It is he who sits above the circle of the earth, and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers. Isaiah 40, 1592

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