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Horizontal rectangle. Hunters and their dogs capturing snakes and bagging them alive. In the center, foreground, a snake devours a frog. Near left center: "Ioan. Stradanus invent."; at lower right: "Corn. Galle Sculp. / Phls Galle excud." Below: "VIPERA IN ITALIAE GAUDET LATITARE PALIDE..."

Credit: Gift of Mrs. A. W. Erickson...

c. 1595
Engraving on paper
1952-37-19
Image and text © Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, 2020

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