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.

  • Straet, Jan van der, 1523-1605.
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[1578-1580]
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37523i
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view 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.

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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. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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

Physical description

1 print : engraving ; image 20 x 27.8 cm

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Lettering

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"

Edition

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

Notes

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

References note

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)

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Wellcome Collection 37523i

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