Hunting the Hare

Unknown designers and cartoonists, Flanders, c. 1650

Large relatives of rabbits, hare were highly prized game—not for their meat, but for the fast-paced, unpredictable challenge of the chase. Here, a dog handler runs with a hound known as a limer, trained to pick up… · description from the collection

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Artist: Unknown designers and cartoonists, Flanders ¹
Date: c. 1650 ¹
Medium: Wool, silk, tapestry weave ¹
Original: 7,627 × 9,265 px ¹
License: Public domain (Minneapolis Institute of Art)
Credit: Minneapolis Institute of Art, The William Hood Dunwoody Fund

Object record, Minneapolis Institute of Art

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The image shows a landscape with a dense wooded area visible from an elevated perspective. The horizon blends into the foliage and trees. A pathway winds from the foreground into the distance through the trees.

[Interior of a church with the dates "1830" & "1880"], Edward L. Burr

A work made of silk and gold gilt strip wound around a silk fiber core, warp-float faced satin weave with supplementary binding warps tying supplementary patterning wefts in weft-float faced twill interlacing.

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