Apollonius meeting the People and Animals of Ethiopia [above]; Apollonius Quelling the Ghost of a Satyr in Ethiopia [below]
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1595 – 1605
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: Four figures walking left in a landscape, with the river Nile in the background, with small figures on the far shore. A group of wild animals, at left, confront the figures.
label: Description
content: Recto, below: In a landscape, along a shore, women chase a satyr towards a cave at left.
label: Description
content: Verso: Figure of a priest in elaborate dress, shown with arms outstretched.
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: 1901-39-2669
objectType: label: Type
content: figures
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Recto: pen and brown and black inks, brush and brown and black washes over black chalk on laid paper Verso: pen and brown ink on laid paper
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 14.5 × 11 cm (5 11/16 × 4 5/16 in.)