Cavemen Chasing Elephants [above]; The King of Persia Hunting [below]
date: label: Date
content: 1596 or before
name: label: Artist
content: Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605
label: Collaborator
content: Luigi Alamanni, Italian, 1558–1603
label: Engraver
content: Karel van Mallery, Flemish, 1571 – 1635
label: Engraver
content: Adriaen Collaert, Flemish, ca. 1560 – 1618
label: Engraver
content: Karel van Mallery, Flemish, 1571 – 1635
label: Publisher
content: Philip Galle, Flemish, 1537 - 1612
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Recto, above: Elephants in a landscape are attacked by small men equipped with hatchets. In the foreground, one tiny figure clings to an elephant's tail and raises his weapon. In the background, sections of elephant meat are carried off as the fallen animal is butchered. Sketches of elephant feet in the foreground. Additional studies of soles of elephants’ feet are in the foreground.
label: Description
content: Recto, below: The king of Persia and his men hunt by surrounding and trapping animals. They are on an island, seen from above, with the shoreline at right. An explanatory inscription in Italian appears at the upper right of the image. The handwriting is that of Stradanus’s patron and collaborator, the humanist scholar Luigi Alamanni. 
label: Description
content: Verso: Elephants attacked by serpents. In the foreground a snake on the ground bites an elephant's trunk. Other snakes hang from the canopy of surrounding trees, threatening the elephants. Italian inscription, address to Stradanus.
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: 1901-39-163
objectType: 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 black wash over black chalk on laid paper
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 22.1 × 16 cm (8 11/16 × 6 5/16 in.)