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Sketchbook page: Pearl Fishing; recto, Diana

Stradanusca. 1590

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
New York, United States

Female figure seated under a tree holding a falcon on her right wrist surrounded by hunting horns, dogs, and bows and arrows, recto. View of semicircular, mountainous coastline with tents pitched at the water's edge. Two parallel rows of boats float in the water and figures raise or lower themselves from lines attached to the bow. In the foreground figures step off the boats onto the shore carrying small bags; some bags are visible laid on the shore and are gathered together by figures crouching on the shore or under the tents, verso.

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  • Title: Sketchbook page: Pearl Fishing; recto, Diana
  • Creator: Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus
  • Creator Lifespan: 1523/1605
  • Date Created: ca. 1590
  • Type: Drawing
  • Rights: Museum purchase through gift of various donors
  • Medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and wash on cream laid paper
  • Provenance: Piancastelli Collection
  • Paper Support: Cream laid paper
  • Dimensions: 10.5 x 14.7 cm (4 1/8 x 5 13/16 in.)
  • Bibliography: Michel N. Benisovich, "Les Dessins de Stradanus", Il Vasari, XXI, no. 4 (1963) pl. LVI a, 140-141.
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

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