Depiction of a hunter with a bird of prey, dog and gun on a woodcut 12. 5 x 6. 0 cm with latin text translation: i, as a bird hunter, pursue all birds, have earned the name for the art of bird catching. Not only do i hide snares under grottos, the trusting bird is fooled by song. But often, while a partridge looks out from the towering holm oak, the disturbed one falls to wonderful tunes. Again and again a heron suffers its punishment, caught by our falcons, even though it may have previously played with many tricks. My extremely welcome art pleases the highest princes, for whom i continuously catch a thousand new prey. Date: 1568.
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