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Drawing, Deer attacked by Lynxes [above left]; Deer Hunt with Hounds Tracking [below left]; Cloelia and her Companions escape Porsena's Camp [above right]; Aeneas and Dido Shelter in a Cave [below right]

This is a Drawing. It was created by Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus and engraved by Hans Collaert II and published by Philips Galle and subject: Pseudo-Oppian and Petrus Angelius Bargaeus. It is dated ca. 1596–1598 and we acquired it in 1901. Its medium is pen and brown ink, brush and wash on two joined sheets of laid paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

It is credited Museum purchase through gift of various donors.

Its dimensions are

H x W: 20.9 × 14.5 cm (8 1/4 × 5 11/16 in.)

It is inscribed

Recto, inscribed in pen and ink: "La fuga di clelia Roma met de hornen ande tacken caccia Didone"

Cite this object as

Drawing, Deer attacked by Lynxes [above left]; Deer Hunt with Hounds Tracking [below left]; Cloelia and her Companions escape Porsena's Camp [above right]; Aeneas and Dido Shelter in a Cave [below right]; Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus (Flemish, 1523–1605); Engraved by Hans Collaert II (Flemish, 1560 - 1628); Published by Philips Galle (Flemish, 1537 - 1612); Subject: Petrus Angelius Bargaeus (Italian, 1517 – 1596), Pseudo-Oppian (Greco-Syrian, active 212 – 217); Netherlands; pen and brown ink, brush and wash on two joined sheets of laid paper; H x W: 20.9 × 14.5 cm (8 1/4 × 5 11/16 in.); Museum purchase through gift of various donors; 1901-39-152

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