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Boar Hunt with Shotguns: P.2-1988

Object information

Current Location: In storage

Titles

Boar Hunt with Shotguns
Hunts and animal scenes

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Galle, Philips (After)
Publisher: Galle, Joannes
Draughtsman: Straet, Jan van der (Giovanni Stradano) (After)

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Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Given (1988) by The Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum

Note

Close copy to the plate engraved by Philip Galle first published 1578-80. Slight differences to the original in the Latin inscription, which reads: "Sic hastile ferit errantes montibus apros Cuspide, vel flamma rumpit precordia plumbum". This state with Johannes Galle's address published in 1634.

School or Style

Dutch

Components of the work

Plate Height 219 mm Width 298 mm

Techniques used in production

Engraving

Identification numbers

Accession number: P.2-1988
Primary reference Number: 129940
New Hollstein (Dutch/Flemish): 427 copy
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Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Friday 23 September 2022 Last processed: Thursday 7 December 2023

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Paintings, Drawings and Prints

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