Console of scrolling foliate forms with flowers and two birds, and a hunter shooting rabbits, Esaias van Hulsen

Artwork Overview

circa 1585–1624
Console of scrolling foliate forms with flowers and two birds, and a hunter shooting rabbits, circa 1610s
Where object was made: Netherlands
Material/technique: engraving
Dimensions:
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 60 x 61 mm
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 2 3/8 x 2 3/8 in
Sheet/Paper Dimensions (Height x Width): 81 x 81 mm
Sheet/Paper Dimensions (Height x Width): 3 3/16 x 3 3/16 in
Mat Dimensions (Height x Width): 14 x 11 in
Credit line: Museum purchase: Letha Churchill Walker Memorial Art Fund
Accession number: 2013.0204
Not on display

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Big Botany: Conversations with the Plant World

In this engraving van Hulsen carries on the longstanding ornament print tradition of imagining complex, elegant botanical structures. Ornament prints encourage viewers to search through the depicted foliage for partially hidden figures and forms. In this artwork viewers can find insects and birds. Van Hulsen adds a relatively orthodox landscape populated by a rabbit hunter, his dog, and their quarry to this fantastic realm of plants and animals. At least two contemporary developments in printmaking inform this work: blackwork engraving and the cosse-de-pois, or peapod, style ornament.

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