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; second state of four
Dimensions: Sheet (Trimmed): 14 7/16 × 10 1/8 in. (36.7 × 25.7 cm)
Classification: Prints
Credit line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1983
Department: Drawings and Prints
Repository: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Tags: term: Spears, term: Men, term: Female Nudes, term: Dogs