Title: Allegory of the Hunt; a hunter holding a large spear carrying a woman (Diana?) on his shoulders; five hunting dogs in the foreground and a retinue of male and female hunters in the background
Object type: Print
Date: 1556
Artist:  Giorgio Ghisi 
Artist bio: Italian, Mantua ca. 1520–1582 Mantua
Artist nationality: Italian
Artist role: Artist
Medium: Engraving
Dimensions: sheet: 14 1/8 x 9 13/16 in. (35.8 x 25 cm) trimmed to platemark
Classification: Prints
Credit line: Gift of Georgiana W. Sargent, in memory of John Osborne Sargent, 1924
Department: Drawings and Prints
Repository: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Tags: term: Arrows, term: Spears, term: Swords, term: Men, term: Women, term: Hunting, term: Dogs