Recto: Four preliminary design for the 'Vermis Sericus' (Silk-making) print series. Above left: Winding silk. Below left: preparing mulberry leaves. Above right: arranging the leaves on shelves. Below right: feeding the mulberry leaves to the silkworms. Verso: Above left: inscription regarding payments for print designs for the Silkmaking and Hunt series. Below left: stacks of mulberry leaves on a rack, a jumping lynx. Verso right: three mulberry leaves., Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 15231605, Pen and brown ink, brush and grey wash on two joined sheets of paper, Recto: Above left: winding silk by steaming silkworm cocoons and reeling the raw silk from the cocoons. Below left: Gathering the mulberry leaves outside. Above right: Spreading the leaves on trays. Lower right: Feeding mulberry leaves to the silkworms.Verso: inscription, a stack of trays, a leaping lynx. At right, detail studies of three mulberry leaves, on a large scale., Italy, ca. 1595, Drawing, Drawing.
Recto: Four preliminary design for the 'Vermis Sericus' (Silk-making) print series. Above left: Winding silk. Below left: preparing mulberry leaves. Above right: arranging the leaves on shelves. Below right: feeding the mulberry leaves to the silkworms. Verso: Above left: inscription regarding payments for print designs for the Silkmaking and Hunt series. Below left: stacks of mulberry leaves on a rack, a jumping lynx. Verso right: three mulberry leaves., Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 15231605, Pen and brown ink, brush and grey wash on two joined sheets of paper, Recto: Above left: winding silk by steaming silkworm cocoons and reeling the raw silk from the cocoons. Below left: Gathering the mulberry leaves outside. Above right: Spreading the leaves on trays. Lower right: Feeding mulberry leaves to the silkworms.Verso: inscription, a stack of trays, a leaping lynx. At right, detail studies of three mulberry leaves, on a large scale., Italy, ca. 1595, Drawing, Drawing