A landscape composed of a male head and buildings

GERMAN SCHOOL, CIRCA 1600 A landscape composed of a male head and buildings inscribed and dated ‘J.E.S.H.U./ Nullum periculum sine periculo vincit.// Genere ac Virtute Nobilissimo Iuvens Andreae Pucher/ amico ac commensali meo perpetuo colendo hoc/ qualecumq[ue] amicitia nostrae symbolum/ L.M. apposuit Argentorati 3 Nox: [?] octobr./ Ao. Chr. M D XCVII/ Eggerdus à Kempen’ (recto); ‘ DEUS ADIVTOR MEUS./ Fidite. dextrae/ Vos a lij: ADIVTOR tu DEUS esto MEUS.// Genere et Virtute Nobilissimo Dn. Andreae Puecher Vratisl. Affinj/ et Commensalj amantissimo, constantis amicitiae ergo scripsit ser=/ uatius Reichell Silesius, in Academia Argentoratensi=/ um celeberrima. Anno restitutae salutis generis humanj. 1597./ mense Nouembrj, die 27. g [?]’ (verso) pen and brown ink, watercolour, bodycolour, gold paint 16 x 9.5 cm (6 1⁄4 x 3 3⁄4 in.)