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[Bear hunt] Pellibus hirsutos, et diros unguibus ursos Per virides lucos sequitur venator anhelus. 21
Joan. Stradanus inven. 1577.
Phl's Galle excu. [Antwerp, c.1596].
Engraving. 200 x 260mm (8 x 10¼"), with margins. Ink ownership inscription of 'W. Wood' on reverse.
Bear hunt, driving them into nets with dogs and lancing them. Plate 21 of 'Venationes Ferarum, Avium, Piscium. Pugnæ Bestiariorum: & mutuæ Bestiarum', a book depicting battles between man & beast and between beasts, drawn by Jan van der Straet (1523-1605, a Flemish painter working in Florence. The verse was written by Cornelis Kiliaan (1528-1607) of Duffel, poet and lexicographer, author of an important Dutch-Latin dictionary, 'Dictionarium Teutonico-Latinum', 1574. The 'Venationes' was first issued in 1577, when van der Staet met Philips Galle in Antwerp. The original series had no plate numbers, but these were added as the series was expanded in 1596.
[Ref: 54112] £160.00
Phl's Galle excu. [Antwerp, c.1596].
Engraving. 200 x 260mm (8 x 10¼"), with margins. Ink ownership inscription of 'W. Wood' on reverse.
Bear hunt, driving them into nets with dogs and lancing them. Plate 21 of 'Venationes Ferarum, Avium, Piscium. Pugnæ Bestiariorum: & mutuæ Bestiarum', a book depicting battles between man & beast and between beasts, drawn by Jan van der Straet (1523-1605, a Flemish painter working in Florence. The verse was written by Cornelis Kiliaan (1528-1607) of Duffel, poet and lexicographer, author of an important Dutch-Latin dictionary, 'Dictionarium Teutonico-Latinum', 1574. The 'Venationes' was first issued in 1577, when van der Staet met Philips Galle in Antwerp. The original series had no plate numbers, but these were added as the series was expanded in 1596.
[Ref: 54112] £160.00