Description:
One of a set of four engravings illustrating Chinese silk manufacturing in Dutch and French, two titled "Education des Vers a Soie" and two titled "Manufacture de Soie Tiree de Du Halde"on the top of the page, and "De Seije Reedery, uit Du Halde." on the bottom of all four. Drawn by Jacques Nicolas Bellin (1703-1772) and engraved by J. van der Schley ("J. v. Schley direx"), these prints were removed from a Dutch edition of Antoine-Francois Prevost's (1697-1793) 20 volume "L'Histoire Generale des Voyages." Bellin adapted the images from Jean-Baptiste Du Halde's (1674-1743) "The General History of China" (The Hague, 1736). This print has five images: 1.) "System to take cacoons from the mats" with two woman, one holding a basket of silk cocoons, in a storage area for the silk cocoons; "Double boiler to kill the silkworms in their cocoons" with a woman boiling the silk cocoons to kill the silk worms and loosen the sticky secretion on the cocoon; "Reel" with a woman sitting in front of a large frame and reel winding the silk threads; "Sheets of paper on which are the eggs" with a woman tending to two hanging sheets of papers; and "Other reel" with two women sitting in front of a larger frame and reel winding the silk. Each print shows a full plate mark.
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