17th century print of The Chamois Hunt

Van der Straet (known as Stradano) Jan Venationes Ferarum Avium Piscius Chamois Hunting, published by Philippa GALLE (Haarlem 1537 – Antwerp 1612), adapted from the work Venationes Ferarum, Avium, Piscium. An original engraving depicting the subject by Jan van der Straet, born in Bruges in 1523 and died in Florence in 1605, digitized and known under the name Giovanni Stradano, a preparatory drawing with hunting themes for the tapestries of Villa Cosimo de' Medici in Poggio a Caiano.

Printed on a piece of thin handmade paper with a watermark, consistent with typical North European paper production from the first half of the 17th century, complete with a plate impression and margins of various sizes from 1 cm to 2 cm, with minor defects along the edges but overall in good condition. The plate features full figures in action, surrounded by bucolic backgrounds, men, animals, fantasy, and reality intertwined. Latin signature at the bottom.

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