The Invention of Distillation
date: label: Date
content: before 1590
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 busy laboratory with figures using large equipment to heat liquid and condense vapors. At center is a large vessel for heating. In the foreground at right, a seated man reads while a young man stands behind him. At left, a boy holds a mortar and pestle.
label: Description
content: Verso: Fives sketches of figures. Three seems to depict female children in aprons worn over long dresses, seen from behind. In the foreground a man in a hat sits in a wooden chair, holding something bulbous (Guaiacum, a plant). He is seen again in the upper part of the sheet, standing and leaning forward with one arm tucked behind his back.
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: 1901-39-305
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Recto: pen and brown ink, brush and gray wash, black chalk on laid paper Verso: pen and brown ink on laid paper
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 10.3 × 14.6 cm (4 1/16 × 5 3/4 in.)