Title page for a Series of Hunting Scenes [above]; Unexperienced Hunter attacked by Snakes [below]
date: label: Date
content: 1599 or before
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: Design for a title page with a colonnade. A tablet surrounded by scrollwork appears within the central arch. Animals such as a stag and possibly a lynx appear at left. Hunters on horseback appear at right.
label: Description
content: Recto, below: A man clings to a rope, as two of his companions hoist him out of a pit filled with snakes. One snake is entwined about his body. Verso: Blank.
place: 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: 1901-39-2658
objectType: label: Type
content: figures
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: 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
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 14.2 × 10.3 cm (5 9/16 × 4 1/16 in.)