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The Saddleback Sheep -- (Ovis fannini)
Ken Carlson, National Museum of Wildlife Art

The Saddleback Sheep -- (Ovis fannini)

Artist/Maker, United States, born Germany, 1869 - 1959
Date1904
MediumGouache and Ink on Paper*
Dimensions18 x 12 in.*
Credit LineLocation Unknown
Object numberCC.0253
ClassificationsPainting
Signed
lower right, C. Rungius.
Categorywildlife
ProvenanceThe artist; Macmillan Company
Illustration

Caspar Whitney, Owen Wister, and George Bird Grinnell. Musk-Ox, Bison, Sheep and Goat. The American Sportsman’s Library, edited by Caspar Whitney. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1904, illustrated p. 212.

DescriptionIn mountainous terrain, two saddleback mountain sheep (Ovis fannini) butt heads as females in the mid-distance look on. Five mountain sheep depicted.Bibliography