Plate 13: A Tiger, a Lynx, and a Jaguar(?), c. 1575/1580

Inscription

upper center in black/brown ink: Quae genuit Tigres, qua nutrit Terra Leones: / Formicis, Apibus, praebuit ipsa sinum; upper center in blue ink: A FRONTE PRAECIPITIV[M] A TERGO FERAE.; center right in black ink: XIII.; animals in image numbered .1., .2., and .3., in red ink; cactus in image numbered .4., in red ink; lower center in black ink: Indica TIGRIS agit rabida cum Tigride Pacem / Perpetuam: saevis inter se convenit ursis.
Facing page: upper center in red/violet ink: A solis ortu usq[ue] ad occasum laudabile nome[n] DOMINI.ps.112. (“From the rising of the sun unto the going down of the same the Lord’s name is worthy of praise.” Psalms 112:3) (Latin Vulgate Bible); middle center in black ink: Venator catulos Tigri rapit, illa citato / Insequitur cursu, furtaq[ue] pendit equus. / Tantus amor prolis, rabies, et vindicis ira / Tanta ferae, foetus et reperire labor.; lower center in brown ink: Vindicat ablatum catulum nece saeva caballi / Tigris, quem liquit littore, praedo fugax. / Exprimut in sobolem fidissima corda parentum: / Atq[ue] quod hic patrat criminis, ille luit. A:S. (Stockelius?)

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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