An engraving of Sixtus V: portrait of the Pope seated with fur-trimmed cap, mantle and hood, his right hand raised in blessing. All around him, eighteen scenes showing his deeds and Roman monuments. This is the second state of the print, which was first published in Rome in 1589 by Altiero Gatti. Capranica inherited Gatti's stock of plates when he died in 1596. This print is lettered throughout. Beneath the portrait: "SIXTVS. V. PONT. MAX. // Cam: Graffico fec: Creatus anno Dni. 1585. die 24 Aprilis ætatis sue anni LxvI. // Cesari Capranica for: Rom: 1597."

The print formed part of an album of portrait prints assembled by Cassiano dal Pozzo in Rome and described in an early nineteenth-century inventory of prints in George III's library as Portraits of Popes and Cardinals. The album was arranged hierarchically from popes to cardinals and thence on to archbishops and bishops, and within each category chronologically (starting from St Peter, according to tradition the first pope). The album was dismantled later in the nineteenth century and the prints that were retained were integrated with others in the collection.

For more information see Mark McDonald, The Print Collection of Cassiano dal Pozzo. I: Ceremonies, Costumes, Portraits and Genre, 3 vols, Royal Collection Trust 2017, part of The Paper Museum of Cassiano dal Pozzo: A Catalogue Raisonné, cat. no. 1169.