Plate 12: A Cheetah(?) and a Wild Sheep, c. 1575/1580

Inscription

upper center in red ink: SEMPER ALIQVID NOVI ADFERT AFRICA.; center right in black ink: XII.; animals in image numbered .1. and .2., in red ink; lower center in black ink: PARDI MORS.
Facing page: upper center in brown ink: Ascendunt montes, et descendunt valles / In locum quem fundasti eis ps: 103. (“The mountains ascend and the valleys descend into the place which you have founded for them.” Psalms 103:8) (Latin Vulgate Bible); lower center in brown ink: Tigrides indomitae rancant: Rugiuntq[ue] leones: / Panthera caurit amans: Pardus hiando felit.

Provenance

Emperor Rudolph of Austria; Lessing J. Rosenwald, Alverthorpe, PA; gift to NGA, 1987.

Exhibition History

1982

Drawings from the Holy Roman Empire, = 1540 - 1680, The Art Museum, Princeton University, National Gallery of Art, Museum of Art, Carnegie Insitute, Pittsburgh (exh. cat. by Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann, no. 56.

1982

Drawings from the Holy Roman Empire, 1540 - 1680, The Art Museum, Princeton University, National Gallery of Art, Museum of Art, Carnegie Insitute, Pittsburgh (exh. cat. by Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann, no. 56.

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