Pietas
date: label: Date
content: 1594–1596
name: label: Artist
content: Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605
label: Engraver
content: Rafael Sadeler I, Flemish, 1560/61 - 1628/32
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Recto: A female pilgrim, an allegory of Piety, kneels before an outdoor altar. She holds a staff and rosary. In the distant background is a church and religious procession.
label: Description
content: Verso, above: A standing man holds a long piece of cloth, to be used as a blindfold. Another figure sketched in black chalk is faintly visible at left.
label: Description
content: Verso, below: A hunter at center throws a blindfold across the eyes of a lion that attacks him from left.
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: 1901-39-135
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Recto: pen and brush and brown ink over black chalk, with corrections by the artist in white opaque paint, on laid paper Verso: pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, over black chalk on laid paper
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 11 × 14.9 cm (4 5/16 × 5 7/8 in.)