Catalogue information

LastDodo number
5333023
Area
Prints / graphics
Title
Intentus merulis Auceps, sic retia tendit Cauta die, ac noctu candelae lumine fallit.
Year
Print run
Signed
Publisher
Dimensions
20,2 x 28,8
Printing office
Details

Copper engraving by Philips Galle (1537-1612), after Joannes Stradanus (1523-1605), published in Antwerp ca.1578 in a series of prints about hunting. Depiction of hunters with bows on their way to bird hunting. The hunt is on in the background. With 2 lines of caption in Latin. Numbered in the lower left corner of edition 74.

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