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Aspersa vino tersa[que] oua vermium, papillulis solent fouere virgines ... [graphic] / Ioan. Stradanus inuent. ; Car. de Mallery sculp.

Mallery, Karel van, 1571-approximately 1635, printmaker.; Straet, Jan van der, 1523-1605, artist.
1590
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Digital image(s) of Folger Shakespeare Library ART Box S895 no.3

Title
Aspersa vino tersa[que] oua vermium, papillulis solent fouere virgines ... [graphic] / Ioan. Stradanus inuent. ; Car. de Mallery sculp.
Variant title
Folger set title: Vermis sericus
Hollstein title: Vermis serivs. The history of the silkworm and silk-spinning.
Created/published
[Antwerp, Belgium?] : [s.n.], [between 1590 and 1600, but this impression later]
Description
1 print : engraving ; platemark 199 x 272 mm
Associated name
Mallery, Karel van, 1571-approximately 1635, printmaker.
Straet, Jan van der, 1523-1605, artist.
Material base
paper
Summary
At center, a group of seated women sprinkling silkworm eggs with wine; to right, young women warming small bags containing silkworms in their clothes; to left, an elderly woman with silkworms on a cloth.--From British Museum.
Note
Dates from British Museum.

Folger copy is printed on wove paper.

'3' inscribed in plate in lower left corner beneath image.

Two lines in French describing the silk-making activities depicted inscribed in plate beneath Latin title.
Cited/described in
British Museum collection database, [via www, Oct. 20 2009], registration no. F,1.165
Hollstein, F.W.H. Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings, and woodcuts, ca. 1450-1700, vol. XI, p. 160, no. 117
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Digital image(s) of Folger Shakespeare Library ART Box S895 no.3
Genre/form
Prints.
Place of creation/publication
Belgium -- Antwerp.

Call number
ART Box S895 no.3 (size S)
Folger accession
210360

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