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Recto: Alexander the Great watching a Fight between his Dog, and Elephant, and a Lion; Verso: Verso: inscription relating to Pliny the Elder's Natural History, Book 8, ch. 61
Stradanus1596 or before
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
New York, United States
Alexander the Great watches from one of three boxes shown in the background. A foot of a dog is shown below, at right.
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- Title: Recto: Alexander the Great watching a Fight between his Dog, and Elephant, and a Lion; Verso: Verso: inscription relating to Pliny the Elder's Natural History, Book 8, ch. 61
- Creator: Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605
- Date Created: 1596 or before
- Location Created: Italy
- Original Source: http://collection.cooperhewitt.org/view/objects/asitem/id/9108
- Medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and grey-brown wash on white laid paper
- Credit line: Museum purchase through gift of various donors
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