The Silkworm Eggs Spread out on Shelves

c. 1595; published after 1721

Karel van Mallery

Associated Names
Karel van Mallery

Artist, Dutch, 1571 - 1635

Jan van der Straet

Artist After, Flemish, 1523 - 1605

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving

  • Credit Line

    Gift of the Family of Yde and Marjon van der Meulen

  • Dimensions

    plate: 20 × 27 cm (7 7/8 × 10 5/8 in.)
    sheet: 26.1 × 37.6 cm (10 1/4 × 14 13/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2026.43.9

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    New Hollstein 349, state vi/vi

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

purchased by Marjon van der Meulen, 1978; gift to NGA, 2026.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1993

  • The New Hollstein Dutch & Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts, 1450-1700. (Johannes Stradanus, Marjolein Leesberg, author). Ouderkerk aan den Ijssel: Sound & Vision Publishers, 2008, no. 349, state vi/vi.

Inscriptions

in plate, within image at lower right: Ioan. Stradan. inuent.; in plate, at top left of margin below image: 4; in plate, in margin below image: Exclusus ouo rite vermis, ocyus
/ Texit suam moro insidens telam arbori. / Les vers sortis des oeufs sont mis sur des feuilles de Meurier etendues sur des Clayes à divers étages ou ils se nourrissent, et Lors qu’ils sont assez gros et remplis on les pose sur des branchages ou ils /
s’acrochent pour filer leurs Coques.

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