print
- Museum number
- Ii,5.180
- Title
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Object: Venatio
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Series: Schema seu speculum principum
- Description
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The Hunt: the goddess Diana, personifying the hunt, is seated before a tree at centre, holding a spear and a hooded falcon; a hunting horn is tied to her waist, an owl perches upon a stake before her, and at her feet lies a plethora of hunting tools; beyond, to the left, hunters on horseback and a pack of hounds chase rabbits, deer and boar, while to the right men fish along a river, leading into the distance, while other hunters shoot birds with bows and arrows. 1597
Engraving
- Production date
- 1597
- Dimensions
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Height: 213 millimetres (image size, top margin cut)
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Width: 282 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- This is one of a series of five, for comment see 1874,0110.448.
The top margin of this print, which displayed the title 'VENATIO,' has been cut.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- before 1837
- Acquisition notes
- There is no indication of provenance on the verso.
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- Ii,5.180
