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Crocodile hunt
Philip Galle, Jan Collaert IIca. 1595
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
New York, United States
Horizontal rectangle. Crocodiles are baited by pigs, caught in the act of devouring the small animals tied up close to the edge of the beach. The crocodiles, unable to retreat easily, are stoned by men, waiting for them on the beach. At lower left: "Ioan. Stradanus invent."; center: "Ioan. Collaert sculp"; near lower right: "Phls Galle excud."
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- Title: Crocodile hunt
- Creator: Jan Collaert II, Flemish, 1560 - 1628, Philips Galle, Flemish, 1537 - 1612
- Date Created: ca. 1595
- Location Created: Netherlands
- Original Source: http://collection.cooperhewitt.org/view/objects/asitem/id/106150
- Medium: Black ink on paper
- Credit line: Gift of Mrs. A. W. Erickson
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