Lafreri, Antonio Publisher 1564 1564 1564 Hu 66a A 104 lower left Hac vetusta marmorea tabula, quae Romae in aedibus Octaviani Zeno prope theatrum Pompeii I campum Florae extat, hisce signis ornata, veteres, veteres rerum naturalium periti optimi agricolae munus significare volerunt. Qui assiduo labore, die noctuque, tribus solis, quattuor lunae stationibus, et naturali utrusque sideris cursu observatis, fortitudine, providentia, fide, et diligentia, terram fatigando rem agranam tractat et proinde carum frugum quae lucis I tenebrarum tempore creantur, oriuntur, excolunturque uberrimum pioventum fert. By this ancient marble picture, decorated with these images, which exists in the house of Octavian Zeno in the Floran field near the theatre of Pompeii the Great, ancient farmers, the most skilled and noblest, wished to show the gifts of natural things. He who manages the farmed property by overcoming the land, through constant labor, night and day, through the three watches of the sun and four of the moon, through fortitude, providence, faith, and diligence and hence he bears the most fertile and beloved of the fruits which are created, cultivated, and born at once into the light from the darkness. lower center Antonii Lafrerii Sequani formeis Anno. DLXIII Rome Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago DG62.5.L2 Chicago United States 41.0 x 27.3 cm sheet, plate mark measuring 40.2 x 26.0 cm 41.0 27.3 40.2 26.0 Bibliothèque nationale (France): Cabinet des estampes, André Linzeler, and Jean Adhémar. Inventaire du fonds français; graveurs du seizième siècle. 2 vols. Paris: M.Le Garrec, 1932. v.2, p.352, ad a. 1564 Engraving Engraving