On the Fly Rail (Above the Stars)
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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)
On the Fly Rail (Above the Stars)
Maker
Don Freeman
(b. 1908, San Diego, California – d. 1978, New York, New York)
Date1934
MediumLithograph
Dimensionssheet: 13 1/8 in. x 15 7/8 in. (33.3 cm x 40.3 cm); image: 9 9/16 in. x 11 13/16 in. (24.3 cm x 30 cm)
ClassificationPRINTS
Credit LineThe Nancy Gray Sherrill, Class of 1954, Collection
Object number2008.281
Status
Not on viewJosh MacPheeJustseeds Artists' CooperativeIraq Veterans Against the WarCombat Paper Project
2010
possibly Jacob HoefnagelTheodor de Bry (and possibly workshop)after Joris Hoefnagel
published 1592
Walter Stein