Caption:
Portrait of Magino Gabrielli or Magino Meir, Jewish inventor, Venice, 16th century. Magino reads from his book about extracting silk thread from the cocoon twice a year., while a black boy beats a drum. He wears a short mantle, violet doublet, breeches and hose. Costumes Venitien. From a handcoloured woodcut in Dialoghi di Magino Gabrielli Hebreo Venetiano, 1588. Handcolored lithograph after an illustration by Edmond Lechevallier-Chevignard from Georges Duplessis's Costumes historiques des XVIe, XVIIe et XVIIIe siecles (Historical costumes of the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries), Paris, 1867. Edmond Lechevallier-Chevignard was an artist, book illustrator, and interior designer.