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Buffalo Hunt, plate 27 in the Venationes Ferarum, Avium, Piscium series
Stradanus, Jan Collaert II1596
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
New York, United States
Horizontal rectangle. Hunters on horseback and on foot, armed with spears, have surrounded a group of oxen. The hunters' dogs attack one animal, foreground. At lower left: "Ioan Stradanus invent. Ioan. Collaert Sculp." At right: "Phls. Galle excud." Below: "BUBALUS AGRESTIS, RABIDUS, TRUX ET FERUS EST BOS..."
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- Title: Buffalo Hunt, plate 27 in the Venationes Ferarum, Avium, Piscium series
- Creator: Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605, Jan Collaert II, Flemish, 1560 - 1628
- Date Created: 1596
- Location Created: Netherlands
- Publisher: Philips Galle, Flemish, 1537 - 1612
- Original Source: See this work of art on the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum website
- Medium: Engraving on paper
- Credit line: Gift of Mrs. A. W. Erickson
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