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Vermis Sericus: Aspersa vino tersaque ova vermium.. (Silk Worm: Sprinkled with wine and rubbed eggs of worms...)
PRINTS AND DRAWINGS
print
Galle, Philipp; Stradanus, Joannes; Mallery, Charles de
Europe: Belgium, Antwerp
1590-1600
paper; wood; glass
overall: 275 x 345 mm

Monochrome print (engraving) of, at centre, a group of seated women sprinkling silkworm eggs with wine; to the right, young women are warming small bags containing silkworms in their clothes; to the left, an elderly woman with silkworms on a cloth is wearing a pair of nose spectacles. In a modern wooden frame.


1999.427

BOA Purchase, 1935



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