Hunting: hunters smoking rabbits out of their burrows, beating the ground with clubs, and closing ranks to catch rabbits. Engraving attributed to A. Wierix II after J. Stradanus.

[Antwerp] : Ph[i]l[ippu]s Galle excu[dit], [1578-1580]

1 print : engraving ; image 20 x 27.8 cm

Fustibus aut telis, densa aut caligine fumi, Venatur gaudens habitare cuniculus antris. Ioes Stradanus inuen. Ph.l.s Galle excu. Bears number: 19 Translation of lettering: "The rabbit, who rejoices in living in hollows, hunts [in error for "is hunted"] with clubs or arrows, or with dense black smoke"

[Leesberg's state II (with number 19 added)].

Marjolein Leesberg, Johannes Stradanus. Part III, Ouderkerk aan den Ijssel 2008 (New Hollstein Dutch & Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts, 1450-1700), p. 139, no. 439 (as by Antonius Wierix II)

Wellcome Collection 37523i

No. 19 in a series of prints of hunters catching animals