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Four Scenes from Sericulture Series
Stradanusca. 1590
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
New York, United States
Upper left: Steaming silk worm cocoons and reeling the raw silk from the cocoons. Lower left: Gathering the mulberry leaves. Upper right: Spreading the leaves on the feeding trays. Lower right: Feeding mulberry leaves to the silkworms. Reverse: Leaves, notations, animal and trays of silkworms.
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Details
- Title: Four Scenes from Sericulture Series
- Creator: Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus
- Creator Lifespan: 1523/1605
- Date Created: ca. 1590
- Type: Drawing
- Rights: Museum purchase through gift of various donors
- Medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and grey wash on two sheets of joined white paper
- Provenance: Ex Collection: Piancastelli
- Paper Support: White paper
- Exhibitions: [Exhibition location?]; "Five Centuries of Drawings"; 1959 - 1961, no. 88 (B).National Collection of Fine Arts (NCFA), Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC; "Treasures from the Cooper Union Museum"; 13 July - 24 September 1967, cat. no. 194.
- Dimensions: 14.3 x 20.1 cm (5 5/8 x 7 15/16 in.)
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