Cavemen Chasing Elephants, plate 3 from the Venationes Ferarum, Avium, Piscium series
date: label: Date
content: 1596 or after
name: label: Designer
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: Horizontal rectangle. In center foreground, an elephant is attacked from the rear by one of the pygmies, while two others prepare to leap from the tree, left. In the background, the Troglodytes are cutting up and carrying off the carcass of an elephant. At left center: "Ioan. Stradanus invent. / Ioan Collaert Sculp"; right of center, below: "Phls. Galle excud." Below: "Trogloditae insidijs Elephantem."
place: label: made in
content: Netherlands
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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: Gift of Mrs. A. W. Erickson
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1952-37-5
objectType: label: Type
content: figures
label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Engraving on paper
label: Dimensions
content: 19.3 × 25.8 cm (7 5/8 × 10 3/16 in.)