The Hunt, Personified by Diana
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
label: Engraver
content: Cornelis Galle I, Flemish, 1576 - 1650
label: Publisher
content: Philip Galle, Flemish, 1537 - 1612
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Recto: A female figure identified as Diana sits under a tree at center. She holds a falcon on her right wrist. At her feet are gathered hunting implements, including horns and bows and arrows. Dogs cluster at left. In the background appears a landscape with a bridge and figures hunting.
label: Description
content: Verso: Scene of pearl diving in the Persian Gulf, with a view of a semicircular, mountainous coastline at left and behind. Simple tents line the shore. Two parallel rows of boats float in the water and figures raise or lower themselves from lines attached to the bow. In the foreground, figures step off the boats onto the shore carrying small, heavily laden bags. Crouching figures examine and shuck the oysters.
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: 1901-39-2664
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 ink, brush and brown wash over black chalk on laid paper Verso: pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash over black chalk, with corrections by the artist in white opaque paint on laid paper
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 10.6 × 14.8 cm (4 3/16 × 5 13/16 in.)