Recto: Elephants Hunted by Troglodytes [Cavemen]; Verso: inscription relating to Pliny the Elder's Natural History, Book 8, ch.8, Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605, Pen and ink, brush and wash on paper, A herd of elephants is shown trotting backwards in a hilly country. Palm trees stand laterally in the foreground. Two dwarves are ready to spring from them, as did a third who, holding the tail and standing upon a knee, raises an axe with his left hand to cut horns of the knees of the animal he caught, the last one., Netherlands, 1596 or before, Drawing, Drawing
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Recto, Elephants Hunted, Troglodytes, Cavemen, Verso, inscription relating, Pliny, Elder's Natural History, Book 8, ch.8, Jan van der Straet, Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605, Pen, ink, brush, wash, paper, herd, elephants, shown trotting backwards, hilly country, Palm trees stand laterally, foreground, Two dwarves, ready, spring, third, holding, tail, standing upon, knee, raises, axe, left hand, cut horns, knees, animal, caught, last, Netherlands, 1596, Drawing, Drawing
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