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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
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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)
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
Henry Austin
About 1868 (house built in 1868, demolished in 1955)