You Will Never Get Crabs to Walk Forwards (Nunquam Efficies ut Recte Incedant Cancri…)

Theodor de Bry, Joris Hoefnagel1592

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Title: You Will Never Get Crabs to Walk Forwards (Nunquam Efficies ut Recte Incedant Cancri…)
Creator: Jacob Hoefnagel, possibly with Theodor de Bry, after Joris Hoefnagel
Date Created: 1592
Signatures / Inscriptions: Inscribed in plate: “Zodiaci gemino munitum forcipe signum, / Pugnantem Alcidon mordicus arripui. / Et testudineo, gressu, feror octipus, aequor, / Ennato, sum foedum luctiferumque malum…”
Set or Series Title: Archetypes and Studies by Georg Hoefnagel
Object Type: Prints, works of art
Object Link: See this artwork on the Davison Art Center website
Object Credit Line: Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University. Friends of the Davison Art Center funds, 2006
Materials & Techniques: Engraving on laid paper
Keywords: animals, aphorisms, crabs, proverbs
Image Credit Line: Open Access Image from the Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University (http://www.wesleyan.edu/dac/openaccess)
Edition: Plate six from Part Four of Archetypes and Studies by Georg Hoefnagel (Archetypa Studiaque Patris Georgii Hoefnagelii)
Associated People: Created by Jacob Hoefnagel (Dutch (Flemish), 1573 - ca. 1630), Possibly with Theodor de Bry (German, 1528-1598), After Joris Hoefnagel (Flemish, 1542-1601)
Accession Number: 2006.3.3

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