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Plate 1: Preparing the Eggs of Silkworms
Treatise on Silk Culture and Manufacture
Plate 1: Preparing the Eggs of Silkworms

Treatise on Silk Culture and Manufacture

Giuseppe Arcimboldo (Italian, 1527–1593)
about 1586
Place of CreationPrague, Czechoslovakia
Medium/TechniqueThirteen drawings in pen and blue ink and brush with blue wash, with autograph letter
DimensionsOverall: 32 x 21.5 x 5.3 cm (12 5/8 x 8 7/16 x 2 1/16 in.)
Sheet: 30.8 x 19 cm (12 1/8 x 7 1/2 in.)
Credit LineWilliam A. Sargent Fund
Accession number50.6.15
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsDrawings
Description
Prague: about 1586-1587
ProvenanceAbout 1586, Ferdinand Hoffmann von Grünpichl-Strechau (b. 1540 -d. 1607), Prague; given by Ferdinand Hoffmann to his wife, Margaretha von Harrach; by descent through the Counts Harrach to the Hradec Library, Czech Republic. 1950, sold by William H. Schab, New York, to the MFA. (Accession Date: January 12, 1950)
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Henry Theodore Tuckerman
1867
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Henry Theodore Tuckerman
1867
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Henry Theodore Tuckerman
1867
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Book of the Artists. American Artist Life, Comprising Biographical and Critical Sketches of American Artists: Preceded by an Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of Art in America. Vol. VI
Henry Theodore Tuckerman
1867
Book of the Artists. American Artist Life, Comprising Biographical and Critical Sketches of American Artists: Preceded by an Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of Art in America.
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Henry Theodore Tuckerman
1867
Man and village
Bound volume of sixty-one drawings (bucolic scenes, farm buildings, river landscapes, tree studies, etc.)
Jacob Philipp Hackert
about 1766
Landscape with City and Waterways; verso: two scenes from Roman history (left, Bound Prisoner Led Away from a Seated Ruler; right, Caius Mrius in Prison)
Landscape with City and Waterways; verso: two scenes from Roman history (left, Bound Prisoner Led Away from a Seated Ruler; right, Caius Mrius in Prison)
Unidentified artist, Flemish, 17th century
17th century
A Warrior and Three Women Attending a Dying(?) Woman
A Warrior and Three Women Attending a Dying(?) Woman
Giuseppe Salviati
mid to late 16th century
Front Elevation of Charles H. Collins House, Meriden, Connecticut
Front Elevation of Charles H. Collins House, Meriden, Connecticut
Henry Austin
About 1868 (house built in 1868, demolished in 1955)
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La Course de Ballons
Francisque Poulbot
early 20th century