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![Ne humanis rationibus divina opera curiosius excutiamus sed ex operibus manuducti admiremur artificem. (Let us not investigate God’s works inquisitively using human reasoning; but, guided by the works, let us admire instead the artist.) Cervellum nobis frangunt gridando Cicadae: Vexat mastinos Musca tavana canes. (The cicadas shatter our brains with their chirping; a horsefly can harass blood-hounds [on the fly].), part III, plate 9, from "Archetypa studiaque patris Georgii Hoefnagelii"](/internal/media/dispatcher/3042/thumbnail)
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Jacob Kainen
(b. 1909, Waterbury, Connecticut – d. 2001, Chevy Chase, Maryland)
Date1946
MediumEtching
Dimensionsoverall: 12 1/16 in. x 8 5/8 in. (30.6 cm x 21.9 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase, The Nancy Gray Sherrill, Class of 1954, Collection Acquisition Fund
Object number2000.67
Status
Not on viewRightsCopyright is retained in accordance with U.S. Copyright laws
Photo creditDavis Museum at Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA
Jacob Kainen
Louise NevelsonStyria Studio, Inc.Experiments in Art and Technology, Inc.
1973
possibly Jacob HoefnagelTheodor de Bry (and possibly workshop)after Joris Hoefnagel
published 1592