Bull Hunt with Spears [above]; Bull Hunt with Eagles [below]
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1599
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 horsemen ride into a landscape from right. They use double-pronged spears to hunt bulls.
label: Description
content: Recto, below: Eagles dive at the faces of bulls, driving them off a cliff. Horsemen watch from the background at right.
label: Description
content: Verso: Faint black chalk sketch of a woman standing. She wears a large ruff, tightly corseted bodice, and a large skirt.
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: 1901-39-167
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 and black washes over black chalk on laid paper Verso: black chalk on laid paper
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 15.6 × 11 cm (6 1/8 × 4 5/16 in.)