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Figure of Africa
From the collection of Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
About this work
Panel in gadrooned frame. Nude female figure, holding tambourine and feather parasol, seated in chariot with crocodile arm rests, drawn by two lions; in foreground, scaly quadruped; in background, two elephants, camel, lion and ostrich. At top right, labeled "Africa".
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum’s own descriptionSubjects
Credit lineFigure of Africa. late 17th–early 18th century. Julius Goltzius, Dutch, died ca. 1595. Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, Gift of the Estate of James Hazen Hyde. CC0.
