Image
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
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Materials
Supports
Dimensions
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Plate: 15.5 x 20.9 cm (6 1/8 x 8 1/4 inches)
Signature / Inscription / Marks
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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
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State
I/VI Place
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Frankfurt; Germany
Type
Credit
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Walter H. Kimball Fund
Object Number
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2006.117.1
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