Drawing, Sketchbook Page: Tiger Killed by Emperor Commodus in Amphitheater, ca. 1590, Stradanus, circa 1590

Drawing, Sketchbook Page: Tiger Killed by Emperor Commodus in Amphitheater, ca. 1590, Stradanus, circa 1590

Horizontal rectangle. A tiger, broken out of his cage, where another one still lies, charges a man. Two others flee. The setting is an arena with crowded ranks. An arrow, shot my a man from the imperial box, is moving toward the beast. Recto, vertically, top: a rough outlining sketch for the representation. Beneath the shooting man is written: "commodo / imperatore"; beneath a line: "storico greco racconta che mentre uno (spi)ava nel teatro una gabbia dove era una [tigre] ella scappò e si gli lanciò a dosso e lo sarebbe (?) subito morto se non che commodo imperatore fu tanto presto e practico con l'arco, e con la / freccia (di quali molto si dilettava) che ferì, et am/mazzo il tigre minanzi che curessi (? nocessi?) all'huomo". Date: circa 1590. Dimensions: 10.5 × 14.2 cm (4 1/8 × 5 9/16 in.). Medium: pen and ink on paper. Collection: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. Drawing, Sketchbook Page- Tiger Killed by Emperor Commodus in Amphitheater, ca. 1590 (CH 18109667)
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Author: Jan van der Straet, called StradanusSource: commons.wikimedia.org

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