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Feeding mulberry leaves to the silkworms
ca. 1590
- Medium
- Black ink on paper.
- Classification
- Figures (representations)
- Dimensions
- 19.7 x 26.9 cm (7 3/4 x 10 9/16 in.)
- Culture
- Netherlands
- Museum
- Smithsonian Institution, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Credit line
- Museum purchase through gift of the Advisory Council
- Rights
- CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
View at the Smithsonian Institution
About this work
Horizontal rectangle. At left, a woman is seated before trays of silkworms; center, a group of women, in another room, in background, left, laundering. Figures in adjoining area, right. At lower right, in plate: "Ion. Stradan. invent. / Phls. Galle excudit." In margin, below: "EXCLUSUS OUO RITE VERMIS, OCYUS..."
