Jacob Hoefnagel

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

Maker

Title

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

Medium

ink

Materials/Techniques

Materials

Techniques

Supports

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

Place Made: Frankfurt am Main; Place Made: Germany

Type

Credit

Walter H. Kimball Fund

Object Number

2006.117.1

Riddle: my skin is red, and white liquid is hidden within (Aenigma: Rubra mihi cutis est, latet intus niveus humor)
part 3, sheet 7 Archetypa studiaque patris Georgii Hoefnagelii

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.

Place Made: Frankfurt am Main; Place Made: Germany
I/VI

Jacob Hoefnagel

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

Jacob Hoefnagel

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