Deer attacked by Lynxes [above left]; Deer Hunt with Hounds Tracking [below left]; Cloelia and her Companions escape Porsena's Camp [above right]; Aeneas and Dido Shelter in a Cave [below right]
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1596–1598
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, above left: Forest scene with stags feeding. Above them, lynx is shown jumping from a tree towards the back of one of the stags.
label: Description
content: Recto, below left: In a wood, stags chased by hounds try to hide their scent. One climbs on the back of a bull, the other rubs its antlers on a tree. Hunters and dogs approach from the right. Recto, above right: A figure identified as Coelia flees towards left across the Tiber river. Her companions follow.
label: Description
content: Recto, below right: Dido and Aeneas on horseback, out on a hunting trip, ride toward a cave at left to take shelter from a storm.
label: Description
content: Verso: Two female busts in oval frames set within decorative borders.
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: 1901-39-152
objectType: label: Type
content: figures
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Pen and brown ink, brush and brown and black washes over black chalk on two spuriously joined sheets of laid paper
label: Dimensions
content: H x W (Overall): 14.5 × 20.7 cm (5 11/16 × 8 1/8 in.)
label: Dimensions
content: H x W (Left sheet): 14.4 × 10.9 cm (5 11/16 × 4 5/16 in.)
label: Dimensions
content: H x W (Right sheet): 14.5 × 10.5 cm (5 11/16 × 4 1/8 in.)