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Original hunting print, number 90, titled: 'Sic anidas Lutras venantur sintre cauata,'. It shows: hunting otters: men in boats and on the river shore are spearing otters with tridents, while they are chased by dogs. Original etching/engraving on a verge type handlaid paper. Description: This print originates from the 104-print series titled "Venationes Ferarum, Avium, Piscium" designed by Joannes Stradanus. These prints were very popular in their time, and reprinted often. Originally Philips Galle engraved 43 unnumbered plates with a dedication page to Cosimo de Medici. De Medici, who employed Stradanus between 1553-1571, commissioned him to make a series of lavish representations of hunting, fowling and fishing for the adornment of twenty rooms in the Palace of Peggio-a-Cajano. These are the designs so magnificently commemorated in the Venationes, blending well-tried renaissance hunting methods with fabulous subject matter drawn from Persia, India and the East. This series was enlarged and further plates by A. Collaert, J. Collaert, C. Galle I and C. de Mallery were added. Several sheets in this ed. have a cross of lorraine watermark with a star countermark, which points to 1590-1630. As this sheet was bound with a dated print dated 1615, we find a dating of 1615 plausible.Artists and Engravers: This print engraved by Philips Galle after the design of Joannes Stradanus. Joannes Stradanus (Brugge, 1523 - Florence, 1605) or Jan van der Straet, Giovanni della Strada, Giovanni Stradano, Giovanni Stratensis, worked principally in Italy as a designer of cartoons for tapestries. Philip Galle (1537-1612) was a Duthc publisher, best known for his old master prints, which ha also produced as designer and engraver. He created a lot of reproductive engravings of prints. Condition: Very good, given age. Some faint creasing in the middle of the sheet, a faint stain in the upper left of the image. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully. Storage location: (RCTPC) A271-34 The overall size is ca. 12.4 x 9.4 inch. The image size is ca. 11.6 x 8.5 inch. The overall size is ca. 31.5 x 24 cm. The image size is ca. 29.5 x 21.5 cm.
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