Recto: Diana, or 'Venatio' (Allegory of the Hunt), preliminary design for pl. 4 in the Schema, seu Speculum Principum (Skills of a Prince) series; Verso: Diving for Pearls in the Persian Gulf, Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605, Pen and brown ink, brush and wash on cream laid paper, Female figure seated under a tree holding a falcon on her right wrist surrounded by hunting horns, dogs, and bows and arrows, recto. View of semicircular, mountainous coastline with tents pitched at the water's edge. Two parallel rows of boats float in the water

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