Plate 10: Nine Sharks, c. 1575/1580

Inscription

Creatures in image numbered .1., .2, .3., .4., .5., .6., .7., .8., and .9., in red ink; center right in brown ink: X.
Facing page: upper center in blue ink: .7. / Tum Viridis Iquammis parvo Saxatilis ore.; lower center in red ink: Omnia subiecisti sub pedibus hominis: oves et boves / Insuper et pecora campi; volucres coeli, et pisces / MARIS, qui perambulant semitas MARIS ps: 8. (“You have subjected all things under his feet, all sheep and oxen: moreover the beasts also of the fields, the birds of the air, and the fishes of the sea, that pass through the paths of the sea.” Psalms 8:8-9) (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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