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The Incubation of the Silkworm Eggs
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Carel van Mallery, Jan van der Straet, and others

The Incubation of the Silkworm Eggs

c. 1595

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The Incubation of the Silkworm Eggs

Carel van Mallery, Jan van der Straet, and others

The Incubation of the Silkworm Eggs

The Incubation of the Silkworm Eggs

c. 1595

Physical Qualities Engraving, Sheet: 248 × 333 mm. (9 3/4 × 13 1/8 in.) Plate: 200 × 270 mm. (7 7/8 × 10 5/8 in.)
Portfolio/Series Vermis Sericus (The Introduction of the Silkworm and the Production of Silk in Europe)
Credit Line The John Dorsey and Robert W. Armacost Acquisitions Endowment
Object Number 2022.102.3

Inscribed: Recto: below image, bottom left, in plate "3."; below image, center bottom, in plate "Aspersa vino tersaq oua vermium Papillulis solent fouere virgines."; in image, left bottom, in plate "Ioan. Stradanus invent. / Car. de Mallery sculp. / Phls Galle excud."; above image, top right corner, in brown ink "207"

Artist

Carel van Mallery

Flemish, 1571-after 1635

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Artist

Jan van der Straet

Flemish, 1523-1605

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Publisher

Philips Galle

Flemish, 1537-1612

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CHRIST RAISING THE WIDOW'S SON
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