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The Roman Consul Attilius Regulus Fighting a Giant African Serpent, plate 25 in the Venationes Ferarum series
Karel van Mallery, Stradanus1596 or after
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
New York, United States
Horizontal rectangle. The serpent is in the center of the composition, middle ground, surrounded by foot-soldiers and horsemen firing cannon and arrows at him. At lower left: "Phls Galle excud."; near lower right: "Joan Stradanus inuent. / Car. de Mallery Sculp." Below: "ATTILIUS CONSUL ROMANUS."
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- Title: The Roman Consul Attilius Regulus Fighting a Giant African Serpent, plate 25 in the Venationes Ferarum series
- Creator: Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605, Karel van Mallery
- Date Created: 1596 or after
- Location Created: Netherlands
- Publisher: Philips Galle, Flemish, 1537 - 1612
- 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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