Theagenes taming the Bull in Ethiopia [above left]; Theagenes taming the Bull in Ethiopia [below left]; Dragon Hunt in India [above right]; Dragon Hunt in India [below right].
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1600
name: label: Artist
content: Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Recto, above left: A crowned figure sits on a platform at right. Before him, in an arena, a man kneels beside a bull on its back. A nearby man rides a bull, clasping its horns, while another figure rides a horse.
label: Description
content: Recto, below left: A crowned figure at right watches men in an arena attempt to subdue bulls. One bull is on its back at left, with a man kneeling beside it. Another man rides a bull at left. At the center is a cluster of men, horses, and bulls.
label: Description
content: Recto, above right: A dragon lies dead in the foreground of a landscape. Men surround it. In the background, a man raises an axe to cut off the head of a second dragon.
label: Description
content: Recto, below right: A dragon has been beheaded in the foreground of a landscape. Men lift gems from its head and gather them in a sack. In the background at left another dragon attacks other men, while at background right a man raises an axe to behead a third dragon.
label: Description
content: Verso, above right (inverted): Inscription, only some of which is intelligible. Includes an address in Venice.
label: Description
content: Verso, below left (rotated): In a landscape, two pilgrims stand near an altar with a figure of mars upon it.
label: Description
content: Verso, above right: Interior view with the birth of the Virgin. In the background, St. Anne lies in bed as an attendant brings her a bowl of water. In the foreground, near the hearth, two women bathe the infant Mary.
label: Description
content: Verso, below left: A crowned figure observes from left as men attempt to subdue bulls in an arena. One bull is on its back, with a man kneeling over it. Another man rides a bull in the center foreground, clasping its horns.
place: label: made in
content: Italy
label: made in
content: Florence, Tuscany, Italy
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Museum purchase through gift of various donors
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1901-39-154
objectType: label: Type
content: figures
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Recto: pen and brown ink, brush and brown and black washes over black chalk, with corrections by the artist in white opaque paint on laid paper Verso: pen and brush and brown and black inks over black chalk, with corrections by the artist in white opaque paint on laid paper
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 15.6 × 22.2 cm (6 1/8 × 8 3/4 in.)