Title Page [above]; The Incubation of Silkworm Eggs [below]
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1595
name: label: Artist
content: Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605
label: Engraver
content: Karel van Mallery, Flemish, 1571 – 1635
label: Engraver
content: Jan Collaert II, Flemish, 1560 – 1628
label: Publisher
content: Philip Galle, Flemish, 1537 - 1612
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Recto, above: Title page design with "VERMIS SERICUS" inscribed on a cloth at center, hanging from a mulberry tree. At the image's four corners, in oval medallions, are representations of different phases of the metamorphosis of the silkworm. An ornamental frame surrounds. Recto, below: In a domestic interior, women warm silkworm eggs. At left and center, they spread the eggs onto pieces of cloth that will be wrapped and placed into baskets, visible on the tables.
label: Description
content: Verso, above: Incomplete design partially copied from the recto; partially left blank.
label: Description
content: Verso, below: Men on horseback, accompanied by dogs, stretch nets between them to capture quail and rabbits.
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: 1901-39-295
objectType: label: Type
content: figures
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 brown and black washes over black chalk, with corrections by the artist in white opaque paint on laid paper.
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 14.4 × 11.1 cm (5 11/16 × 4 3/8 in.)