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Lion trap
Philip Galle, Jan Collaert IIca. 1595
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
New York, United States
Horizontal rectangle. The lions, frightened by the lighted torches carried by the hunters, are forced into the string of nets set up to trap them, right. At lower left: "Ioan. Stradanus invent." Right of center, below: "Ioan. Collaert Sculp."; at lower right: "Phls Galle excud." Below: "AS TU QUI SATAGUNT VALIDUM ILLAGUEARE LEONEM..."
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- Title: Lion trap
- Creator: Jan Collaert II, Flemish, 1560 - 1628, Philips Galle, Flemish, 1537 - 1612
- Date Created: ca. 1595
- Location Created: Netherlands
- 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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