Plate 22: Blackhead Persian Sheep and a Sheep with a Long Tail, with a Cactus, c. 1575/1580

Inscription

upper center in red ink: HIC NIGER EST, HVNC TV ROMANE CAVETO.; center right in black ink: XXII.; animals in image numbered .1. and .3., in red ink; cactus in image numbered .2., in red ink
Facing page: upper center in (gold?): Cuncta suo Domino depromunt munera laudum / seu semper sileant, sive sonare queant.; lower center in blue ink: MONTES commovebuntur, et COLLES contremiscent: / misericordia autem mea non recedet a te. Isaias.54. (“For the mountains shall be moved and the hills shall tremble; but my mercy shall not depart from you.” Isaiah 54:10) (Latin Vulgate Bible)

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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