Recto: Elephants Hunted by Troglodytes [Cavemen]; Verso: inscription relating to Pliny the Elder's Natural History, Book 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

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