Golfer
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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)
![Octipedem ne excites. (Don’t wake an eight-foot [on the scorpion]) Scorpius irata tactus dat vulnera cauda. (When it is touched, the scorpion inflicts wounds with its irate tail.), part IV, plate 4, from "Archetypa Studiaque Patris Georgii Hoefnagelii"](/internal/media/dispatcher/16934/thumbnail)
![Per tal variare Natura e bella. (Through such variety nature is beautiful.) Alea parva Nuces, et non damnosa videtur: Saepe tamen pueris abstulit illa nates. (Gambling with nuts is thought a harmless game; but it has often raised the boys’ buttocks [=boys have been beated on the buttocks]), part II, plate 12, from "Archetypa Studiaque Patris Georgii Hoefnagelii"](/internal/media/dispatcher/16933/thumbnail)
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Golfer
Maker
Jacob Landau
(b. 1917, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania – d. 2001, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
Date1965
MediumWoodcut
Dimensionssheet: 14 1/2 in. x 20 1/2 in. (36.8 cm x 52.1 cm); overall: 17 1/2 in. x 12 in. (44.4 cm x 30.5 cm)
Credit LineThe Nancy Gray Sherrill, Class of 1954, Collection
Object number2009.507
Status
Not on viewpossibly Jacob HoefnagelTheodor de Bry (and possibly workshop)after Joris Hoefnagel
published 1592
Object number: 2006.108
possibly Jacob HoefnagelTheodor de Bry (and possibly workshop)after Joris Hoefnagel
published 1592
Object number: 2016.24
possibly Jacob HoefnagelTheodor de Bry (and possibly workshop)after Joris Hoefnagel
published 1592
Object number: 2016.23
Jacob Mathamafter; workshop of Hendrick Goltzius
1589
Object number: 2016.594.2