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Cavemen Hunting Elephants

Maker

(artist)
1523-1605

(printmaker)
ca.1621-after 1678 (Life dates)

(publisher)
1600-1676

Title

Cavemen Hunting Elephants

Dimensions

Height: 20.1 cm
Width: 25.9 cm

Accession Number

G.1990.WL.2375

Mode of Acquisition

Witt Library, transfer, 1990

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

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Provenance

Information not yet known or updated

Inscriptions

Inscription: Recto: within image, lower centre: “Ioan. Stradanus inuent. / Ioan. Collaert Sculp. Ioan Galle excud. //”; lower margin: “3 Trogloditae insidijs Elephantem fallere docti, / Arripiunt caudam, tum laeso poplite mancum / Mactant : in varias scindunt partes : sua quisque / Quam nactus praedam proper in Spelea reportat. //”.

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