A Roman Soldier Fighting Hannibal's Elephant
date: label: Date
content: 1596 or before
name: label: Artist
content: Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605
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: View of an arena, with Roman soldiers battling. A man lies dead at center left, with three others standing over him. Hannibal watches from a viewing box at left. His elephant is at right, confronted by a fourth soldier. An elephant trunk is roughly outlined on the ground below. In the right background, at the entrance to the street, more soldiers fight. Multiple annotations throughout the drawing indicate changes to be made.
label: Description
content: Verso: Italian inscription relating to the recto.
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: 1901-39-158
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 brown and black washes over black chalk on laid paper Verso: pen and brown ink over black chalk on laid paper
label: Dimensions
content: H x W x D: 10.4 × 13.8 cm (4 1/8 × 5 7/16 in.)