Author: Jacob Hoefnagel (1573-1632) after Joris Hoefnagel (1542-1600)
Title: Antique print, engraving | Plants and insects. [set: ARCHETYPA STVDIAQVE PATRIS GEORGII HOEFNAGELII] Planten en insecten, published 1592, 1 p.
Description: Plate 9 from the second volume of ARCHETYPA STVDIAQVE PATRIS GEORGII HOEFNAGELII, published in Frankfurt in 1592.A dragonfly in the center; a butterfly faced upside down above it in the upper middle; a spider hanging on a line of web coming from the top; a fly above the butterfly to the right; two plants on the outer left and right, the right one with a caterpillar on it's side; a crane on the right side of the dragonfly in the centre; a beetle below the dragonfly on the left; a cinnamon stick with three ants around it in the lower middle; a plum in the lower left corner; a cricket and a bunch of grapes in the lower right corner.Inscribed above, in middle: Aestatem meminit brumae formica sequentis=/ colligit id circo provida messe cibum. and below: Formica Cicadae/ QVOD AESTATE CANTAS: ID HYEME CACA. Engraving on paper, trimmed within plate mark; total: 152 x 207 mm; on verso traces of ink transferred to the top leaf while pages were piled up after printing. H 4035; VD 16; Orn. Berlin 4409; Nissen 2; Bl. 1954.

Keywords: Animals|Botanical|Latin|Still life