Antique Hunting Print-BULL-HUNT-SPEAR-HORSE-DOG-No. 27-Stradanus-1615

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Original hunting print, number 27, titled: 'Bubalus agrestis, rabidus, trux et ferus est Bos'. It shows: hunting bull: men on horseback with spears are slaughtering a group of bulls, using dogs. 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. Joannes (Hans, Jan) Collaert (Antwerp, c. 1545 - 1628) was a Flemish engraver, son of Adrian Collaert. Condition: Very good, given age. Two faint creases in the left margin. A faint brown stain in the right margin (extending a little into the image), small dark spots in the bottom margin. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully. Storage location: (RCTPC) A270-17 The overall size is ca. 11.8 x 9.3 inch. The image size is ca. 10.2 x 7.9 inch. The overall size is ca. 30 x 23.5 cm. The image size is ca. 26 x 20 cm. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 42220

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