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Crocodile Hunt in Tentyra, in Egypt, plate 30 from 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. The jaws of the crocodiles are pried open and a stick inserted to render them helpless while they are clubbed to death. At lower right, in the foreground, one man sits astride a crocodile, holding the stick in place, while two others prepare to use their clubs. Near lower right: "Ioan. Stradanus / invent..Carolus de / Mallery Sculp.; Phls Galle excud." Below: "TENTIRA IN AEGYPTO..."

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Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

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