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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.
- Straet, Jan van der, 1523-1605.
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- [1578-1580]
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Credit: 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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Publication/Creation
[Antwerp] : Ph[i]l[ippu]s Galle excu[dit], [1578-1580]
Physical description
1 print : engraving ; image 20 x 27.8 cm
Lettering
Fustibus aut telis, densa aut caligne fumi, venatur gaudens habitare cuniculus antris. Ioes Stradanus inuen. Phls Galle excu
Edition
Leesberg's state II (with number 19 added).
Publications 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)
Reference
Wellcome Library no. 37523i
Lettering note
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"
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Languages
- Latin
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