In the 16th and 17th centuries, many artists strived for scientific accuracy. But what happened when they were asked to draw an animal they had never seen? Wenceslaus Hollar was commissioned to make this printed advertisement for the arrival of Asian elephant Don Diego to Frankfurt am Main, Germany, in 1629. Having never seen an elephant firsthand, he adapted images of an Asian elephant drawn from life 68 years earlier by Gerard van Groeningen (active c. 1561–1576) in Belgium. Similarly, Adriaen Collaert never participated in an elephant hunt. The elephants’ scale and the sparse trees in this fictional attack resemble a European boar hunt more than an African savannah or an Asian rainforest, elephants’ natural habitats.