Hunting Panthers using Human Excrement
date: label: Date
content: 1596 or before
name: label: Artist
content: Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605
label: Engraver
content: Jan Collaert II, Flemish, 1560 – 1628
label: Publisher
content: Philip Galle, Flemish, 1537 - 1612
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Recto: In a landscape, big cats—identified as panthers but having spots like leopards—spring up at bowls containing excrement, suspended from the branches of two trees. Two other big cats lie dead. Hidden behind bushes, shepherds watch from the background at left.
label: Description
content: Verso: Italian inscription relating to the recto. There is also a series of dots with an illegible number (possibly “38”).
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: 1901-39-156
objectType: 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 black wash over black chalk on laid paper Verso: pen and brown ink on laid paper
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 10.4 × 14 cm (4 1/8 × 5 1/2 in.)