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Joris Hoefnagel

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Watercolor plate showing seven insects, including beetles, a grasshopper, a white butterfly and a bee, inside a gold oval bor

Plate 67: Seven Insects, Including a White Butterfly and a Bee

c.1575/1590s

Painted plate of two wasps and a pill bug within a gold oval border, with red Latin inscription above.

Plate 71: Two Wasps and a Pill Bug

c.1575/1590s

Worn red leather book cover with gold-stamped word TERRA, gilt border and brass corner clasps.

Animalia Qvadrvpedia et Reptilia (Terra)

c. 1575/1590s

Pale page with a thin gold-ink oval outline in the centre and the Roman numeral LXXI in the right margin.

Plate 71: Empty Oval

c.1575/1590s

Red leather book cover with gold tooled border, brass corner clasps, and the gilt word AQVA at center.

Animalia Aqvatilia et Cochiliata (Aqva)

c. 1575/1590s

Watercolor of numbered flatfish and other fish swimming on blue water inside a gold oval border, with Roman numeral XXXIII.

Plate 33: Sole and Other Flatfish with Bandfish(?)

c.1575/1590s

Red leather book cover with gilt clasps, gold border, and the gold-stamped word AIER in the center.

Animalia Volatilia et Amphibia (Aier)

c. 1575/1590s

Painting of doves and pigeons on a branch, beams and a tiled roof, with Latin inscriptions in an oval frame.

Plate 66: Doves and Pigeons

c.1575/1590s

Empty gold oval outline on a cream page with the Roman numeral LXXI at the right edge.

Plate 72: Empty Oval

c.1575/1590s

Still life drawing of pink rose and blossoms in a gold vase, with butterflies, a snail, caterpillars and a dragonfly.

Still Life with Flowers, a Snail and Insects

1589

Watercolor plate of six numbered flatfish swimming over stylized blue water within a gold-ruled oval border.

Animalia Aqvatilia et Cochiliata (Aqva): Plate XXXIV

1575

Watercolor plate of five flatfish in blue water and sand, one pink fish tied with cord, numbered XXXV.

Animalia Aqvatilia et Cochiliata (Aqva): Plate XXXV

1575

Watercolor of five numbered fish, including an eel and a carp, swimming over a blue sea and sand within a gold oval border.

Animalia Aqvatilia et Cochiliata (Aqva): Plate XXXVI

1575

Animalia Aqvatilia et Cochiliata (Aqva): Plate XXXVII

1575

Six numbered freshwater fish swim across blue water in a gold-ruled oval, painted in watercolor on vellum.

Animalia Aqvatilia et Cochiliata (Aqva): Plate XXXVIII

1575

Watercolor plate of a walrus, pink fish, sunfish and blue octopus swimming in an oval sea with Latin labels.

Animalia Aqvatilia et Cochiliata (Aqva): Plate III

1575

Drawing of a squid, carp, pike, perch, and small fish over water, with a flowering water plant and shells on a bank.

Animalia Aqvatilia et Cochiliata (Aqva): Plate XXXIX

1575

Seven numbered fish of varied species swim in blue water inside a gilded oval border, drawn in watercolour and ink.

Animalia Aqvatilia et Cochiliata (Aqva): Plate XL

1575

Watercolor plate of ten numbered fish of varied colors swimming across a stylized blue water surface within an oval border.

Animalia Aqvatilia et Cochiliata (Aqva): Plate XLI

1575

Nine numbered fish swim in rippled blue water inside a gold oval border, drawn in watercolor on a cream page.

Animalia Aqvatilia et Cochiliata (Aqva): Plate XLII

1575

Watercolor plate of numbered fish swimming in pale blue water within a gold oval border, by Joris Hoefnagel.

Animalia Aqvatilia et Cochiliata (Aqva): Plate XLIII

1575

Watercolor of lobsters, crabs, shells, a flatfish and shrimp on a sandy seabed, numbered and labeled with a Latin inscription

Animalia Aqvatilia et Cochiliata (Aqva): Plate XLIV

1575

Hoefnagel watercolor plate of seven numbered crustaceans, lobsters, crabs and shrimp, over blue water within an oval border.

Animalia Aqvatilia et Cochiliata (Aqva): Plate XLV

1575

Watercolor plate of two crabs and numbered seashells arranged within a gold oval border, labeled XXXVI.

Animalia Aqvatilia et Cochiliata (Aqva): Plate XLVI

1575