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Cavemen Chasing Elephants, plate 3 from the Venationes Ferarum, Avium, Piscium series

Jan Collaert II, Stradanus1596 or after

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
New York, United States

Horizontal rectangle. In center foreground, an elephant is attacked from the rear by one of the pygmies, while two others prepare to leap from the tree, left. In the background, the Troglodytes are cutting up and carrying off the carcass of an elephant. At left center: "Ioan. Stradanus invent. / Ioan Collaert Sculp"; right of center, below: "Phls. Galle excud." Below: "Trogloditae insidijs Elephantem."

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Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

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