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You Will Never Get Crabs to Walk Forwards (Nunquam Efficies ut Recte Incedant Cancri…), plate six from Part Four of “Archetypes and Studies by Georg Hoefnagel”

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You Will Never Get Crabs to Walk Forwards (Nunquam Efficies ut Recte Incedant Cancri…), plate six from Part Four of “Archetypes and Studies by Georg Hoefnagel”

1592
16th century

Jacob Hoefnagel, Dutch (Flemish), (1573–ca. 1630)
Possibly with Theodor de Bry, German, (1528–1598)
After Joris Hoefnagel (aka Georg Hoefnagel), Flemish, (1542–1601)

Object Type: print

Medium and Support: Engraving on laid paper

Series: from Archetypes and Studies by Georg Hoefnagel

Edition: Plate six from Part Four of Archetypes and Studies by Georg Hoefnagel (Archetypa Studiaque Patris Georgii Hoefnagelii)

Marks: Inscribed in plate: “Zodiaci gemino munitum forcipe signum, / Pugnantem Alcidon mordicus arripui. / Et testudineo, gressu, feror octipus, aequor, / Ennato, sum foedum luctiferumque malum…”

Credit Line: Friends of the Davison Art Center funds, 2006

Accession Number: 2006.3.3

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animals*, aphorisms*, crabs, proverbs*

animals - This section can use more hierarchical (quasi-Linnaean) refinement in future; extant terms were assembled into a fairly flat and slightly redundant structure to expedite conversion.
aphorisms - Short, pithy statements of principle or precepts, often of known authorship; distinguished from "proverbs" which are statements repeated colloquially and which often embody the folk wisdom of a group or nation. [December 1994 descriptor added.]
crabs
proverbs - Related Term

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Jacob Hoefnagel, Dutch (Flemish), (1573–ca. 1630) Theodor de Bry, German, (1528–1598) Joris Hoefnagel (aka Georg Hoefnagel), Flemish, (1542–1601) . You Will Never Get Crabs to Walk Forwards (Nunquam Efficies ut Recte Incedant Cancri…), 1592. From Archetypes and Studies by Georg Hoefnagel. Engraving on laid paper. : mm (in.). DAC accession number 2006.3.3. Friends of the Davison Art Center funds, 2006. Open Access Image from the Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University (photo: R. Lee) .

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