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Crane Hunt using Cones, plate 28 in the Venationes Ferarum, Avium, Piscium series

Stradanus, Karel van Mallery1596 or after

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
New York, United States

Horizontal rectangle. Trapping the long-necked bird by means of placing cornucopias in holes in the ground; the cornucopias are probably filled with bait. Several of the birds, rendered helpless by the hoods, are shown in center. Trappers behind tree, right. On rock, near lower right: "Ioan. Stradanus invent. / Carol de Mallery Sculp. / Phls. Galle excud." Below: "AUCEPS E CHARTIS COMFECTOS ARTE CUCULLOS..."

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Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

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