# Feeding mulberry leaves to the silkworms

- Date: 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
- Credit line: Museum purchase through gift of the Advisory Council
- Museum: [Smithsonian Institution](https://collection.cooperhewitt.org/view/objects/asitem/id/104860)
- Rights: [CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/web/f8438984abc038de9fc48c6436d06297.jpg
- Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

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..."