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Original hunting print, number 10, titled: 'As tu qui satagunt validum illaqueare Leonem'. It shows: hunting lions: lions being chased into nets with torches and shields. Original etching/engraving on a verge type handlaid paper. 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 Joan Collaert 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. From 1553-1571 he was employed by Cosimo de Medici. Joannes (Hans, Jan) Collaert (Antwerp, c. 1545 - 1628) was a Flemish engraver, son of Adrian Collaert. Condition: Good, given age. Light creasing, a sharp crease from the top margin into the image, margins thumbed and with small stain. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully. Storage location: (RCTPC) A270-01 The overall size is ca. 11.4 x 8.9 inch. The image size is ca. 10.2 x 7.9 inch. The overall size is ca. 29 x 22.5 cm. The image size is ca. 26 x 20 cm.
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