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Description: This print originates from the 104-print series titled "Venationes Ferarum, Avium, Piscium" designed by Joannes Stradanus. These prints were very popular in their time, and reprinted often. Originally Philips Galle engraved 43 unnumbered plates with a dedication page to Cosimo de Medici. De Medici, who employed Stradanus between 1553-1571, commissioned him to make a series of lavish representations of hunting, fowling and fishing for the adornment of twenty rooms in the Palace of Peggio-a-Cajano. These are the designs so magnificently commemorated in the Venationes, blending well-tried renaissance hunting methods with fabulous subject matter drawn from Persia, India and the East. This series was enlarged and further plates by A. Collaert, J. Collaert, C. Galle I and C. de Mallery were added. Several sheets in this ed. have a cross of lorraine watermark with a star countermark, which points to 1590-1630. As this sheet was bound with a dated print dated 1615, we find a dating of 1615 plausible.
Artists and Engravers: This print engraved by Cornelis Galle after the design of Joannes Stradanus. Joannes Stradanus (Brugge, 1523 - Florence, 1605) or Jan van der Straet, Giovanni della Strada, Giovanni Stradano, Giovanni Stratensis, worked principally in Italy as a designer of cartoons for tapestries. Cornelis Galle, the Elder (1576-1650), a younger son of�Philip Galle, was born at�Antwerp�in 1576, and was taught�engravingby his father. He followed the example of his brother�Theodoor�in visiting Rome, where he resided several years, and acquired a correctness of design, and a freedom of execution, in which he greatly surpassed both his father and his brother. After engraving several plates at Rome, from the Italian masters, he returned to Antwerp, where he carried on the business of a printseller, and engraved many plates after the works of his countrymen and his own designs. He became a master of the Antwerp�Guild of St Luke�in 1610.
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Subject: Original hunting print, number 11, titled: 'Arte Leo astutis mira superatur ab Afris'. It shows: hunting lions: lions being blinded with cloth and subsequently killed with a sword.
Condition: Good, given age. A tear in the left margin, backed with contemporary paper, a sharp crease from the bottom margin into the image. Four tiny closed tears in the top margin. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.
Size (in cm): The overall size is ca. 30 x 22.5 cm. The image size is ca. 26.5 x 20 cm.
Size (in inch): The overall size is ca. 11.8 x 8.9 inch. The image size is ca. 10.4 x 7.9 inch.
Medium: Original etching/engraving on a verge type handlaid paper.
Location: A193-12
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