Hunting: three men shoot at wild boar. Engraving after J. Stradanus (?).

  • Straet, Jan van der, 1523-1605.
Date:
[1580?]
Reference:
2913953i
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Description

Right, three men with guns, concealed behind a tree and a bush, shoot at a group of five wild boar, left. In the background, horsemen with hounds chase two wild boar up a hill

Publication/Creation

[Antwerp?] : [Philipp Galle?], [1580?]

Physical description

1 print : engraving ; image 13.1 x 19.3 cm

Contributors

Creator/production credits

A similar composiiton was engraved by Cornelis Galle after Stradanus (van der Straet) as plate 25 of Venationes ferarum, ca 1578, and this one too may be part of that series, although they are larger than this one. Alternatively it could be by Antonio Tempesta

Reference

Wellcome Collection 2913953i

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