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Catching Night Moths, plate 25 from the Venationes Ferarum, Avium, Piscium series
Stradanus, Cornelis Galle the Elder1596
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
New York, United States
Horizontal rectangle. The apiary is at right. In the foreground, the bee-masters are beating the bushes, driving out the moths hidden in them toward flaming lamps set up on the ground. At lower left: "I. Stradanus inv. C Galle sculp"; at lower right: "Phls Galle excud." Below: "MELLIFERIS INFESTI APIBUS SUNT PAPILIONES..."
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- Title: Catching Night Moths, plate 25 from the Venationes Ferarum, Avium, Piscium series
- Creator: Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605, Cornelis Galle I, Flemish, 1576 - 1650
- 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: Black ink on paper
- Credit line: Gift of Mrs. A. W. Erickson
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