Frontispiece, "Pars Tertia," 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: 7 3/8 in. x 10 3/4 in. (18.7 cm x 27.3 cm); image: 5 13/16 in. x 7 13/16 in. (14.8 cm x 19.8 cm); platemark: 6 3/16 in. x 8 3/16 in. (15.7 cm x 20.8 cm)

ClassificationPRINTS

Credit LineMuseum purchase, The Mary Clothier Slade Fund

Object number2006.107

Status

Not on view

RightsCopyright is retained in accordance with U.S. Copyright laws

Photo creditDavis Museum at Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA

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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"

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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"

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Ipsa dies aperit: conficit ipsa dies. (One day brings forth [a flower], and the same day ends it [on the flower].), part I, plate 9, from "Archetypa studiaque patris Georgii Hoefnagelii"

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