The Invention of Gunpowder
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1590 or before
name: label: Artist
content: Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605
label: Client
content: Luigi Alamanni, Italian, 1558–1603
label: Publisher
content: Philip Galle, Flemish, 1537 - 1612
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Recto: View of a foundry in which men carry out a variety of tasks related to manufacturing weapons. A large wheel is at right. Hot liquid pours from an oven at left. A colonnade divides the foreground space from a second area beyond, where a man tends to a fire. Mortars appear throughout.
place: label: made in
content: Florence, Italy
label: made in
content: Florence, Tuscany, Italy
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Museum purchase through gift of various donors
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1901-39-298
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Pen and brown ink, brush and black wash over black chalk on laid paper
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 10.4 × 14.4 cm (4 1/8 × 5 11/16 in.)