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The image depicts a variety of objects, including a butterfly, a grasshopper, and a dragonfly. The color palette is monochromatic with shades of black, white, and gray. The butterfly is in the upper right corner, the grasshopper is below and to the left, and the dragonfly is above the grasshopper. Other objects in the image include a snail, seed pods, pieces of fruit, a small fly near the snail, a ladybug in the bottom right corner, and a caterpillar in the top right corner.
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The image depicts a variety of objects, including a butterfly, a grasshopper, and a dragonfly. The color palette is monochromatic with shades of black, white, and gray. The butterfly is in the upper right corner, the grasshopper is below and to the left, and the dragonfly is above the grasshopper. Other objects in the image include a snail, seed pods, pieces of fruit, a small fly near the snail, a ladybug in the bottom right corner, and a caterpillar in the top right corner.

National Gallery of Art · Print

Archetypa studiaque patris Georgii Hoefnagelii [Part 1, Plate 12]

Jacob Hoefnagel after Joris Hoefnagel

Date
published 1592
Medium
engraving on laid paper
Dimensions
page size: 24.1 × 32.5 cm (9 1/2 × 12 13/16 in.) plate: 15.5 × 20.8 cm (6 1/8 × 8 3/16 in.)
Classification
Print
Accession number
1987.20.9.13
Credit line
Gift of Mrs. Lessing J. Rosenwald
Time span
1551 to 1600
Department
CG-E
Original NGA record

Portfolio and series

Series
Archetypa studiaque patris Georgii Hoefnagelii [Part 1, Plate 12]

Subjects and terms

  • animal
  • Flemish
  • engraving
Provenance

Mrs. Lessing J. Rosenwald [1893-1988], Jenkintown, PA; gift to NGA, 1987.

NGA object ID 224566. Collection metadata is reproduced under CC0. This work is included because its NGA published-image record is marked open access; visitors should recheck the source record before substantial reuse.