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Horizontal rectangle. Beside a river, the two water wheels are seen at center. Men, bringing grain, weighing it, and pouring it into the grindstones. Bottom center: "Joan Stradanus invent." "Phls. Galle excud."

Print, A water mill, ca. 1590
engraving on paper.
Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund.
1938-88-8431

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.

Horizontal rectangle. Olives are harvested (outside), put through several stages of pressing; the oil is being extracted, refined by boiling, measured and carried away. Bottom center: "Joan Stradanus invent." "Phts. Galle excud."

Print, Extraction of olive oil, ca. 1590
engraving on paper.
Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund.
1938-88-8433

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.

Horizontal rectangle. Second state. At center, a ship surrounded by sea monsters; on its decks are men and many bells. In the background are two similar ships. In a choppy sea. Near right bottom corner: "Joan. Stradanus invent. / Joan. Galle. excud." Bottom margin: "Nauita Erythraeum panidus qui navigat aequor / In prorae et puppis summo resonantia pendet / Tintinabula: eo sonitu praegrandia late, Balenas et Monstra marina à navibus arcet." "6."

Print, Three ships surrounded by monsters, ca. 1590
engraving on paper.
Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund.
1938-88-8408

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.

Horizontal rectangle. A ship in which many engravers and apprentices are busy cutting, preparing and printing the plates and drying the prints. Bottom: "Joan Stradanus invent." "Phts. Galle excud."

Print, Engraving on metal; Engravers on a ship, ca. 1590
engraving on paper.
Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund.
1938-88-8432

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.

Vertical rectangle. An escutcheon surrounded by many animals, statues of Diana and another huntress, two hunters and the coat of arms of the Medici with spears and horns, contains the text beginning: "COSMVS MED. MAGN: ETRVRIAE" and ending with : "Johannes Stradensis Flanfrius inuen. Philippus Galle Sculp. et exud:/1578." Bottom center: Ad Lectorem. Framing lines, bottom: Exornant aulasque aulea parentis Hetrusci, Pluribid exemplis his tibi lector habe."

Print, Dedicatory page of the set "Mediceae familiae rerum feliciter gestarum...
engraving on paper.
Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund.
1938-88-8417

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
There are 2 images of this object.

Horizontal rectangle. Stirrups are forged, decorated, sold, and borne away from a busy shop on a narrow street. In the foreground, a man is about to mount his horses. Bottom left: "Joan Stradanus invent." and "Phls. Galle excud."

Print, Workshop of a stirrup maker, ca. 1590
engraving on paper.
Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund.
1938-88-8434

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.

Nagler, Mon. II. 1916. 9) 4. In the center a medallion portrait of William the Taciturn of Orange, as the wise captain. In the outer circle: the Judgement of Solomon; Venus; a man at table, praying, flanked by Death and the Devil; the judgement over Susanna and three elders. Inscriptions in French and Low German.

Print, Bottom of a Bowl (?), ca. 1578
engraving on paper.
Museum purchase through gift of Mrs. John Innes Kane.
1942-36-34

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.

Horizontal rectangle. View of women sorting and unwinding the cocoons and giving them the various stages of preparing the silk for weaving it, etc. Below the print caption in Latin: "Hinc vermium permullà saepe millia. Simul legunt parant ez telas feminae." "Cognes ramassées et mises dans une espèce de chaudière avec le Dividoir pour lever les soyes."

Print, Unwinding the silk cocoons, ca. 1600
engraving on paper.
1947-125-2

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.

One of a set with the title "Americae detectio." Inscribed: "Christophorus Columbus Ligur....00.VIII D." No. 2.

Print, Christopher Columbus, ca. 1575
engraving on paper.
1947-40-1

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.

An old man, identified as the legendary Flavio Amalfitano, seated at his desk using a compass and reading a book; tools, books, and instruments are arranged around the richly furnished room; a dog is at his feet. A model of a ship hangs above and in front of him.

Print, Lapis Polaris Magnes, plate 2 of the Nova Reperta series, ca. 1590
engraving on paper.
Museum purchase through gift of Samuel P. Avery.
1947-26-1

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.

Horizontal rectangle. Several women are seated at long tables on which silkworms cocoons are placed, and are in process of unwinding the cocoons, the thread being wound on long spools. Woman stands, left, with a child in her arms. View of street in background, left, with women gathering cocoons (?).

Print, Unwinding the cocoons, ca. 1590
engraving on paper.
1951-80-3

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.

Woman busily spreading leaves on the tiers of trays, right. Through the open door, left a view showing women gathering mulberry leaves from the trees. A man, in center foreground, empties a sack of leaves on the floor.

Print, Spreading the leaves on the feeding trays, ca. 1590
engraving on paper.
1951-80-2

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.

Horizontal rectangle. Dolphins, dogs, elephants, and sea-monsters are bing ridden by putti. Inscribed below: "de Bry Excud."

Print, Decorative Panel: Sea Monsters, ca. 1550
engraving on paper.
1953-144-10-1

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.

Two knife handles with classical and figural motifs terminating in a pierced top

Print, Designs for Two Knife Handles, 16th century
engraving on paper.
Museum purchase from General Acquisitions Endowment and through gift of Mrs.....
1995-47-1

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.

Signed: "Joannes Stradanus inuen. Jeronimus Wierix fecit. / Phillupus Gallaeus excudit."

Print, St. Anne, the Virgin and the Christ child, ca. 1580
engraving on paper.
Bequest of George Campbell Cooper.
1896-3-98

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.

On a podium stands Christ between four men. In foreground, spectators; at left, the cross held by a man. The city gate and two houses in background. Inscribed, right (on podium): "Corn. Co. F. 1572."

Print, Ecce Homo; engraving by Cornelis Cort, after a drawing by Etienne...
engraving on paper.
Bequest of George Campbell Cooper.
1896-3-89

This object was made by Cornelis Cort.
This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
There are 2 images of this object.

Scrollwork panels with the bust of Justice and six boys and a verse from Revelations referring to justice. [Backwards B]B, under a crown

Print, Justice from the set VII Virtutum...imagines, ca. 1575
engraving on paper.
Bequest of George Campbell Cooper.
1896-3-99

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.

Scrollwork panel with the bust of Temperance, four boys pouring water into bowls, and verse from Ecclesiastes.

Print, Temperance plate of 7 of the same set as -99 VII Virtutim...imagines,...
engraving on paper.
Bequest of George Campbell Cooper.
1896-3-100

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.

Print, A Roman horse, a riding horse for ladies from the first set of Equile Joannis Austriaci, ca. 1575

Print, A Roman horse, a riding horse for ladies from the first set of Equile...
engraving on paper.
Bequest of George Campbell Cooper.
1896-3-94

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.

Two horses fight with each other; a third one lies on the ground. Three are running. Bottom margin, similar -92: "Prescia venturae sic tempestatis equorum," etc.

Print, Fighting horses from the fourth set of Equile Joannis Austriaci, ca. 1575
engraving on paper.
Bequest of George Campbell Cooper.
1896-3-96

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.

Print, A Saxon horse from the first set of Equile Joannis Austriaci, ca. 1575

Print, A Saxon horse from the first set of Equile Joannis Austriaci, ca. 1575
engraving on paper.
Bequest of George Campbell Cooper.
1896-3-95

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.

A Danish horse from the fourth set of "Equile Joannis Austriaci," the stud of Don Juan of Austria (died 1578). Horse galloping toward left. Signed bottom right: "Johan. Strada. inuent. / Phls Gallaeus excudit." At the bottom margin, a verse of two pairs of lines: "Saltu Danus atrox," etc.

Print, A Danish horse from the fourth set of Equile Joannis Austriaci, ca. 1575
engraving on paper.
Bequest of George Campbell Cooper.
1896-3-92

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.