Hunting snakes
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
Where you'll find this
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
Permanent collection
![Recto, above: Elephants Hunted by Troglodytes [Cavemen], from Pliny's Natural History, Book 8, ch. 8; below: The King of Persia hunting on an Island. Verso: Fight between Elephants and Snakes, from Pliny's Natural HIstory, Book 8, ch. 11-12](https://img.smartify.org/15ERscLP0WblN2aEjJip6FjkpBvKTtiGImg7EnJySdM/resize:fill-down:535:535:0:0/gravity:fp:0.5:0.5/format:jpg/czM6Ly9zbWFydGlmeS1tZWRpYS9hcnR3b3JrLWltYWdlL0NITkRNXzE5MDFfMzlfMTYzL21lZGlhX0tNeTBRUlZNNUc1NURpSzJXa0YzdjMuanBn.jpg?Policy=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&Signature=Am~ZKUeyVBJxPDeeVOhFQJIAmPHPNQK7jhFqQMoCfeNrBbeHmVjHnZJpzZFfvvYWWN5hG40h1sWQ95kVxnkCByWq74ZjNEOp-2KbypgNj09jO61P7HrCpZP0--8rdt3rHiTyN14-KUiOa-d52KGDQyLi9NyUnZWJBHqZSKrFif9WejmLiDduJnJSb5q3ENkG1PQ8F6srLeQ8thvlow2IxYAF7dIQd-hoKcu34JDfUO958045ImICSIarY4WBBFbZEyOlgJC6OoZ5yUqtAadlVMtZrXTPCYfP44B6qjDRgy50hf-wzICy1srHeXY2Z7PAL7-7OjKefnMLAh0AkWwTnQ__&Key-Pair-Id=K2TK72C9H46KK2)
