Recto: Crocodile Hunt in Tentyra, in Egypt; Verso: inscription relating to Pliny the Elder's Natural History, Book 7, ch. 38, Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605, Black chalk, pen and ink, brush and brown wash on laid paper, Five men are seated astride crocodiles, wrestling the animals and holding their jaws open with with sticks. Two are in the water of the Nile, while three more are on the bank at left. One of the latter is being killed by blows upon the head. On the verso, an inscription citing Pliny the Elder explains describes the scene., Netherlands, 1596 or before

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