Nasci. Pati. Mori. (Birth, suffering, death.) Exanimat tenuis mures. Ut noxa salaces: sic modico casu lubrica vita perit. (A trifling injury kills the lustful mice: thus this uncertain life is lost through a simple accident.), part II, plate 8, from "Archetypa studiaque patris Georgii Hoefnagelii"
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Nasci. Pati. Mori. (Birth, suffering, death.) Exanimat tenuis mures. Ut noxa salaces: sic modico casu lubrica vita perit. (A trifling injury kills the lustful mice: thus this uncertain life is lost through a simple accident.), part II, plate 8, from "Archetypa studiaque patris Georgii Hoefnagelii"
Makerpossibly
Jacob Hoefnagel
(b. 1575, Antwerp, Belgium – d. ca. 1630, Netherlands)
Maker
Theodor de Bry
(and possibly workshop) (b. 1528, Liège, Belgium – d. 1598, Frankfurt am Main, Germany)
Makerafter
Joris Hoefnagel
(b. 1542, Antwerp, Belgium – d. 1601, Vienna, Austria)
Datepublished 1592
MediumEngraving
Dimensionssheet: 10 15/16 in. x 13 15/16 in. (27.8 cm x 35.4 cm); platemark: 6 1/16 in. x 8 1/4 in. (15.4 cm x 21 cm); image: 5 13/16 in. x 8 in. (14.8 cm x 20.3 cm)
ClassificationPRINTS
Credit LineMuseum purchase, The Dorothy Johnston Towne (Class of 1923) Fund
Object number2016.22
Status
Not on view