Heating and Preparing Cocoons, Reeling Silk [above left]; Drying Mulberry Leaves [below left]; The Gathering of Mulberry Leaves and the Feeding of the Silkworks [above right]; The Silkworm Eggs Spread Out on Shelves [below right]
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1595
name: label: Artist
content: Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605
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 left: Women steam silkworm cocoons in vats, then reel the raw silk from the cocoons.
label: Description
content: Recto, below left: In a town square, figures gather mulberry leaves and spread them on mats. The entire composition is struck through.
label: Description
content: Recto, above right: Women spread mulberry leaves on trays, arrayed on racks. Numbered “4”.
label: Description
content: Recto, below right: Women feed mulberry leaves to silkworms.
label: Description
content: Verso, above left: Italian inscription.
label: Description
content: Verso, below left: Study of a stack of trays used for drying mulberry leaves. Next to it is a leaping lynx, with claws outstretched.
label: Description
content: Verso, right: Highly detailed study of three mulberry leaves.
place: label: made in
content: 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: 1901-39-297
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Overall: pen and brown ink, brush and brown and black washes over black chalk, with corrections by the artist in white opaque paint on two joined pieces of laid paper
label: Dimensions
content: H x W (Overall): 14.9 × 20 cm (5 7/8 × 7 7/8 in.)
label: Dimensions
content: H x W (Left sheet): 14.2 × 10.2 cm (5 9/16 × 4 in.)
label: Dimensions
content: H x W (Right sheet): 14.9 × 10.4 cm (5 7/8 × 4 1/8 in.)