Description This print shows a view on crossbow hunters of birds return home to show their catch to women. Hunters in the background are waiting are shooting with their crossbows to shoot the birds. A villa on the left. Number 76 from a series of hunting scenes invented by Joh. Stradanus. The number is not printed which indicates an older version of the print. Made by Johan Collaert after Johannes Stradanus. Medium: engraving on handlaid (verge) paper. Watermark: hand. Sheet size: 30.5 x 21.2 cm (12.01 x 8.35 inch). Image size: 29.5 x 21 cm. (11.61 x 8.27 inch). Condition: good, given age. Brown stains on reverse. Creases. Smudges. Paper loss in right margin. Remains of paper tape in upper margin on reverse. Folds in lower left corner. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully. HUNTING-BIRDS-HUNTERS-CROSSBOW-VILLA-BIRD SHOOTING | RBOS-A11-07 BACKGROUND INFORMATION This attractive print was published by Philip Galle in Venationes ferarum avium piscium. Pugnae bestiariorum mutuae bestiarum. A series of prints about hunting. Philip Galle (Haarlem, 1537 – Antwerp, 12 or 29 March 1612) who is best known for his work as an engraver and draughtsman. He is also famous for his engraving reproductions of various paintings. Galle was a pupil of Dirck Volkertsz. Coornhert. Between 1590-1612. State: first state. Reference: See: Baroni Vanucci 693 nr. 76 = 1584 = second state.This print is from 1578 and first state. Also: New Hollstein (Stradanus): 449.I (of III), 445-447.III (of III), 450.I (of III), 453.III (of III), 485.II (of IV), 487.II (of IV), 488.I (of IV). 493.II (of IV), 508.II (of III), 522.II (of III), 524.I or II (of III). Biography engraver: Johan Collaert (Brussels, between 1525 and 1530 ? Antwerp, October 1580) was a Flemish printmaker, publisher, draftsman, tapestry designer, glass painter and designer and engraver of swords. He was the founder of a dynasty of engravers that would play a significant role in establishing Antwerp as one of the leading centres for printmaking in Europe in the second half of the 16th century and the early 17th century. Biography artist: Johannes Stradanus (Dutch Jan van der Straet or Italian Giovanni Stradano; 1523 ? 2 November 1605) was a Flemish artist active mainly in Florence, Italy. He was a wide-ranging talent who worked as an easel and fresco painter, designer of tapestries, draughtsman, designer of prints and pottery decorator. His subject range was varied and included history subjects, mythological scenes, allegories, landscapes, genre scenes, portraits, architectural scenes and animals. After training in his native Flanders, he left his home country and ultimately settled down in Florence, Italy. He became a prominent court artist to the Medici during the second half of the 16th century and worked on the many decorative projects of the court. Stradanus also produced large altarpieces for the most important churches in Florence.
