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Emperor Justinian Receiving the First Imported Silkworm Eggs from Nestorian Monks
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Carel van Mallery, Jan van der Straet, and others

Emperor Justinian Receiving the First Imported Silkworm Eggs from Nestorian Monks

c. 1595

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Emperor Justinian Receiving the First Imported Silkworm Eggs from Nestorian Monks

Carel van Mallery, Jan van der Straet, and others

Emperor Justinian Receiving the First Imported Silkworm Eggs from Nestorian Monks

Emperor Justinian Receiving the First Imported Silkworm Eggs from Nestorian Monks

c. 1595

Physical Qualities Engraving, Sheet: 261 × 323 mm. (10 1/4 × 12 11/16 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 2022.102.2

Inscribed: Recto: below image, bottom left, in plate "2."; below image, center bottom, in plate "Monachi duo Iustantiano Principi Semen dedêre, vermis unde Sericus."; in image, center bottom, in plate "Ioan Stradanus invent. Phls Galle excud."; above image, right corner, in brown ink, "20[cut off]"

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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