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Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish

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Engraving of a workshop where men grind olives with an ox-driven millstone and press oil beside clay jars and barrels.

Oleum Olivarum (The Production of Olive Oil), plate 12 in the Nova Reperta (New Inventions of Modern Times)

1590

Engraving of a braided horse labeled Saxo walking on a hill, with a walled town and river boats behind it.

A Saxon Horse, from the first set of "Equile Joannis Austriaci"

1600

Engraving of cavemen attacking elephants in a palm-filled landscape, with a fallen elephant being butchered in the distance.

Cavemen Chasing Elephants, plate 3 from the Venationes Ferarum, Avium, Piscium series

1590

Engraving of a Roman soldier with a sword fighting a war elephant among fallen warriors in an arena, watched from galleries.

A Roman Soldier Fighting one of Hannibal's Elephants, pl. 7 in the Venationes Ferarum, Avium, Piscium series

1590

Engraving of an elephant wrestling a coiled snake under a tree, with a second elephant and hunters in a hilly landscape behin

Fight between Elephants and Snakes, plate 2 from the Venationes Ferarum, Avium, Piscium series

1590

Engraving of two hunters with a gun and an ox near a stream, with deer and cattle in a wooded landscape.

Deer hunt

1600

Engraving of figures fishing with pelicans on a river bank, with ducks, willows, huts and Latin verse below.

Indians Catching Fish with the Help of Pelicans

1590

Engraved study interior with a scholar using compasses, a hanging galleon, a globe, instruments, and a sea view through an ar

Lapis Polaris Magnes (Invention of the Compass), plate 2 of the Nova Reperta (New Inventions for Modern Times)

1590

Engraved street scene of a blacksmith's forge with horses, riders, and a furnace, showing the invention of the stirrup.

Staphae, Sive Strapedes (Invention of the Stirrup), plate 9 in the Nova Reperta (New Inventions for Modern Times)

1590

Engraving of a busy 16th-century printmaking workshop with workers at presses, benches and inking tables.

Engraving on metal; Engravers on a ship

1590

Engraving of a rearing horse with a braided tail against a distant landscape of hills and buildings, labelled Danus.

A Danish Horse, from the fourth set of "Equile Joannis Austriaci"

1600

Engraving of two horses, labeled Romanus and Equus Matronalis, before a distant walled city with a bridge.

A Roman Horse, from the first set of "Equile Joannis Austriaci"

1600

Engraving of three sailing ships tossed among fantastical sea monsters on rough waves under a dark sky.

Three ships surrounded by monsters

1590

Engraving of a rearing horse with a bridle, labeled GALLICVS, with a city and hills in the background.

A French Horse, from the first set of "Equile Joannis Austriaci"

1600

Engraving of fighting horses rearing in a hilly landscape with a wolf at lower left and trees at upper right.

Fighting Horses, from the fourth set of "Equile Joannis Austriaci"

1600

Brown ink drawing of two interior scenes: a seated veiled woman on the left and a crowded birth chamber on the right.

Annunciation [left]; Birth of the Virgin [right]

1580