Recto Title: Page from a sketchbook showing four scenes: including Thessalians Fighting Bulls, upper left and Men Battling Alligators, upper right.
Stradanus1587
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
New York, United States
Pages of a sketchbook. Recto: Four scenes, upper left, lower left. Thessalians fighting bulls, upper right, lower right.Horizontal rectangle. Verso: Four scenes. Upper left: Men fighting bulls in an arena, as the King observes, left. In background man on horseback rides to attack bull. Lower left: Another version of men fighting bulls. King in background, right. Upper right and lower right: Two versions of scenes of men fighting alligators. Verso, upper right: Nativity of St. John (?). Lower right: Men fighting bulls. Lower left: Statue of King on pedestal set in forest, observed by three men (horizontal); the composition set upper right. Upper left notations.
- Title: Recto Title: Page from a sketchbook showing four scenes: including Thessalians Fighting Bulls, upper left and Men Battling Alligators, upper right.
- Creator: Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus
- Creator Lifespan: 1523/1605
- Date Created: 1587
- Type: Drawing
- Rights: Museum purchase through gift of various donors
- Medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and brown and black wash on off-white laid paper
- Provenance: Giovanni Piancastelli Collection
- Dimensions: 15.2 x 22.2 cm (6 x 8 3/4 in.)
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