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The Silkworm Eggs Spread Out on Shelves

Carel van Mallery, Jan van der Straet, and others

The Silkworm Eggs Spread Out on Shelves

1589-1599

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The Silkworm Eggs Spread Out on Shelves

1589-1599

Physical Qualities Engraving, Sheet: 256 × 334 mm. (10 1/16 × 13 1/8 in.) Plate: 201 × 271 mm. (7 15/16 × 10 11/16 in.)
Credit Line The John Dorsey and Robert W. Armacost Acquisitions Endowment
Object Number 2022.102.4

Inscribed: Recto: below image, bottom left, in plate "4."; below image, center bottom, in plate "Exclusus ouo rite vermis, ocyus Texit suam moro insidens telam arbori."; in image, bottom right corner "Ioan Stradan. invent. / Phls Galle excudit."; above image, top right corner, in brown ink "20[cut off]"

Artist

Carel van Mallery

1570–1634

Flemish, 1571-after 1635
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Artist

Jan van der Straet

1522–1604

Flemish, 1523-1605
Meet Jan van der Straet

Publisher

Philips Galle

1536–1611

Flemish, 1537-1612
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