Jan Collaert II, “Hunting Quails and Rabbits”, c.1600, after Jan van der Straet

Jan Collaert II (aka Jan Collaert; Hans Collaert) (c.1561–c.1620)

“Hunting Quails and Rabbits”, c.1600, a rare first state impression of plate 69 (before numbering) from the series of 104 plates, “Venationes Ferarum, Avium, Piscium. Pugnae Bestiariorum: & mutuae Bestiarum”, after a drawing by Jan van der Straet (aka Joannes Stradanus; Ioannes Stradanus) (1523–1605) in the Nationalmuseum in Stockholm and a preliminary sketch in the National Design Museum in New York (inv. 1901-39-295v), with Latin text by Cornelis Kiliaan (c1529–1607), published by Philips Galle (aka Philippus Gallaeus; Philippe Galle) (1537–1612) in Antwerp.

Engraving on laid paper trimmed with a small margin around the platemark and backed with a support sheet.

Size: (sheet) 20.6 x 28.3cm; (plate) 19.8 x 27.2cm; (image borderline) 18.1 x 27.1cm.

Inscribed on plate within the image borderline along lower edge: (left) “Ioan. Stradanus inuent.”; (left of centre) Ioan. Collaert Sculp.”; (right) “Phls Galle excud.”

Lettered in plate below the image borderline in two columns of two lines of Latin: (centre) “Nexa Coturnicibut Venator retia tendit./ Cum segetes messæ: Plaudo latrante, pætentem// Grex sese simul in campum velociter infert;/ Collectas Auceps deprendit casse volucres.” (The hunter stretches his nets for the quails./ When the harvest is reaped: I applaud, barking, lamenting// The flock quickly rushes into the field together;/ The birdcatcher catches the birds gathered.)

State i (of iii) before the addition of the number (“69”)

New Hollstein 521 (Johannes Stradanus) (Marjolein Leesberg [comp.] 2008, The New Hollstein: Dutch and Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts 1450–1700: Johannes Stradanus, part. 3, Ouderkerk aan den Ijssel, Sound and Vision, p. 196; [illus. p. 229], cat. no. 521); New Hollstein 1523 (Collaert Dynasty) (Ann Diels & Marjolein Leesberg [comp.] 2005–06, The New Hollstein: Dutch and Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts 1450–1700: The Collaert Dynasty, vol. 8, Ouderkerk aan den Ijssel, Sound and Vision, cat. no. 1523).

The British Museum offers the following description of this print: “Plate 69, Quail and Rabbit Hunt; on a corn field with sheaves of corn, two men on horseback, coming from the right, are about to drag a net over a covey of quails; to the left, two men draw a net over a rabbit; on the horizon, to the left, a church is seen, while to the right, a farm building is seen” (https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1957-0413-77 [inv. 1957,0413.77]).

See also the Rijksmuseum’s description of this print: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/200175668.

Condition: a strong and near faultless impression with small margins around the platemark. The sheet is in an excellent condition with no tears, holes, abrasions, losses or significant stains and is laid upon an archival support sheet of millennium quality washi paper providing wide margins.

I am selling this exceptionally rare lifetime impression from the first state—interestingly the New Hollstein mentions only two impressions of this print from the first state held in museum repositories (but I may have misunderstood the advice [see “Johannes Stradanus, part 3, p. 196, cat. no. 521, SI]— for AU $319 in total (currently US $198.43/ EUR 190.36/ GBP 157.69 at the time of posting this print) including Express Mail (EMS) postage and handling to anywhere in the world, but not (of course) any import duties/taxes imposed by some countries. Note that payment is in Australian dollars (AU $319) as this is my currency.

If you are interested in purchasing this exceptionally fine late Renaissance period engraving showing the hunting technique in the 16^th century for catching quail and rabbits, please contact me (oz_jim@printsandprinciples.com) and I will send you a PayPal invoice to make the payment easy.

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Jan Collaert II's engraving, “Hunting Panthers Using Human Excrements”, c1596

Jan Collaert II (aka Hans Collaert, Jan Baptist I Collaert) (c1561–1620)

“Hunting Panthers Using Human Excrements”, c1596, Plate 15 from the second series of 104 plates, “Venationes Ferarum, Avium, Piscium”, after Jan van der Straet (aka Joannes Stradanus; Johannes Stradanus; Jan van der Straeten; Giovanni della Strada; Giovanni Statenensis; Giovanni Stradano) (1523–1605), with Latin verses by the Flemish writer, Cornelis Kiliaan (1528–1607), initially published by Philips Galle (aka Philippe Galle; Philippus Gallaeus) (1537–1612) in Antwerp and later by Joannes Galle (1600–1676) in the 1634 edition. This impression is from a later edition printed on chine collé China paper after the 1634 edition; see title page and discussion of the 1634 edition offered by the British Museum: https://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=1619537&partId=1&searchText=Venationes+Ferarum%2C+Avium%2C+Piscium+stradanus&page=1).

(Note that Antonio Tempesta (1555?–1630) made an etching of the same subject published by Giovanni Orlandi (fl.1590–1640) in 1602 in Rome (see BM no. X,3.362).

Engraving on chine collé on laid paper.

Size: (sheet) 26.2 x 36.1 cm; (plate) 19.7 x 26.5 cm; (image borderline) 18.1 x 26.1 cm.

Inscribed on plate within the image borderline: (lower right corner) “Ioan. Stradanus inuent. Ioan. Collaert Sculp. Ioan Galle excud.”

Numbered and lettered on plate below the image borderline in two lines of Latin verses in two columns: (from lower left) “15. Excrementa hominum Panthera auido appetit ore:/ Altiùs in vase hæc quàm vt saltu attingere possit,// Pastores pendent: languens saltu illa frequenti,/ Concidit: insigni Spoliatur mortua pelle." ([transl.] “Panther untainted human excrement tends voice: / this deep in a forest, then that could be attained, // fed depend on the forest is unhealthy frequent / ruined, dead skin is stripped remarkable."

State IV (of IV) with the change of the publisher from “Phls Galle excud.” to “Ioan Galle excud.”

New Hollstein (Dutch & Flemish) 1505.IV (The Collaert Dynasty); New Hollstein (Dutch & Flemish) 473.IV (Johannes Stradanus); Baroni Vannucci 1997 693.15 (Alessandra Baroni Vannucci 1997, “Jan van der Straet, detto Giovanni Stradano, flandrus pictor et inventor”, Milan, Jandi Sapi Editori).

The British Museum offers the following description of this print (state iii):

“Plate 15, Hunting Panthers Using Human Excrements; to left, panthers are lured into a trap by two pots of human excrement suspended from the branches of a tree, out of reach; to right, huntsmen, carrying spears, conceal themselves amongst the trees Engraving”

(https://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=1619853&partId=1&searchText=Venationes+Excrementa&page=1)

Regarding other plates in this series, see Alessandra Baroni & Manfred Sellink 2012, “Stradanus 1523–1605: Court Artist of the Medici", exh.cat. Groeningemuseum Brugge 2008-2009, Turnhout, Brepols Publishers, pp.245–58, cat. nos. 32-49.

Condition: well-printed impression with generous margins in excellent condition (i.e. there are no tears, holes, folds, abrasions, stains or foxing).

I am selling this bizarre and (for me) strangely unsettling hunting scene of leopards being enticed by suspended bags of human excrement, for the total cost of AU$286 (currently US$192.24/EUR175.50/GBP155.71 at the time of posting this listing) including postage and handling to anywhere in the world (but not, of course, any import duties/taxes imposed by some countries).

If you are interested in purchasing this early engraving created fifty-five years after Michelangelo finished work on the Sistine Chapel, please contact me (oz_jim@printsandprinciples.com) and I will send you a PayPal invoice to make the payment easy.

Jan Collaert II's engraving, “Hunter Caught in Pit”, c1596

Jan Collaert II (aka Hans Collaert; Jan Baptist I Collaert) (c1561–c1620)

“Hunter Caught in Pit” (aka “Inexperienced Hunter Attacked by Snakes” [BM title];  “Jager gevangen in kuil” [Rijksmuseum title]), c1596, from the series of 104 engraved plates of hunting scenes, “Venationes Ferarum, Avium, Piscium” (With wild beasts, birds, fish), after the design by Jan van der Straet (mostly known as Joannes Stradanus) (1523–1605), with text by Cornelis Kiliaan (1528–1607), published by Philips Galle (1537–1612) in Antwerp.

Engraving on laid paper trimmed with small margins around the image borderline at top and sides and retaining the text box, backed with a support sheet.

Size: (sheet) 19.9 x 27 cm; (image borderline) 18.3 x 26.7 cm

Inscribed on plate within the image borderline: (lower left corner) “Ioan. Stradanus invent. / I. Collaert Sculp. Phls Galle exc.”.

Lettered on plate below the image borderline in two lines of Latin in two columns: “Sæpe quidem .../ …// …/ ..esca Colubris.”

Lifetime impression; state i (of iv) before numbering.

New Hollstein (Dutch & Flemish) 1517.I (3) (The Collaert Dynasty); New Hollstein (Dutch & Flemish) 504.I (4) (Johannes Stradanus); Baroni Vannucci 1997 693.42 (Alessandra Baroni Vannucci 1997, “Jan van der Straet, detto Giovanni Stradano, flandrus pictor et inventor”, Milan, Jandi Sapi Editori)

The Rijksmuseum offers the following description of this print:

(transl.) “In a landscape hunted deer and rabbits. Near a few ruins a careless hunter has fallen into a pit with snakes. Although his friends try to pull him out of the pit with a rope, their attempts are too late. The man is bitten and strangled by snakes. The print has a Latin caption and is part of a series about hunting scenes.”

(http://hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.collect.97371)

See also the description offered by the British Museum:

“Inexperienced Hunter Attacked by Snakes; in the centre foreground, a hunter is attacked by snakes in the vaults of a ruined building, which is seen beyond; above, three companions attempt to rescue him with a rope; in the left mid ground, a hunter on horseback chases a deer, while two hounds pursue a rabbit in the left foreground” (https://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=1620278&partId=1&people=128853&peoA=128853-2-60&page=1)

Regarding other plates in this series, see Alessandra Baroni & Manfred Sellink 2012, “Stradanus 1523–1605: Court Artist of the Medici", Turnhout, Brepols Publishers, pp.245–58, cat. nos. 32-49.

Condition: richly inked and well printed early impression trimmed with small margins around the image borderline (retaining the text box) and laid on a support sheet of archival (millennium quality) washi paper. There are small losses and restorations (virtually invisible).

I am selling this curious scene of a hunter who has fallen into a subterranean chamber and is being bitten by leaping snakes as he is hauled up on a rope by rescuers for the total cost of AU$286 (currently US$189.08/EUR167.75/GBP147.69 at the time of posting this listing) including postage and handling to anywhere in the world (but not, of course, any import duties/taxes imposed by some countries).

If you are interested in purchasing this alarming and amazing image created only 84 years after Michelangelo finished work on the Sistine Chapel, please contact me (oz_jim@printsandprinciples.com) and I will send you a PayPal invoice to make the payment easy.

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