Saccharum

Baroni Vannucci, A. Jan van der Straet, detto Giovanni Stradano: 697.13
Folger bibliographic ID: 335688
New Hollstein Dutch & Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts, 1450-1700: Stradanus, Johannes 335
Folger call number: ART Vol. f81 no.13
Folger holdings ID: 486869
Accession Number: 202670

Men chopping sugar cane stems; to right, a table with rows of sugar loaves. In background, men operating a mill, stirring boiling syrup in large pots and ladling syrup into loaf molds. In the distance, a sugarcane harvest

Edition

[State 3 of 4]

General notes

Title from item Plate numbered "13." From Nova reperta, a set of 20 prints illustrating new inventions and discoveries, after drawings by Jan van der Straet. The set was published in Antwerp, first by Philips Galle (ca. 1591) and later by Karel de Mallery (after 1612), Theodoor Galle (before 1636) and Johannes Galle (before 1677) (New Hollstein) State and plate mark dimensions from New Hollstein Also available as a digital reproduction

Item information about Folger ART Vol. f81 no.13

Numbering effaced. Trimmed to plate mark and inlaid to larger sheet

Extended title: Saccharum Ioan. Stradanus inuent
Alternate titles: Invention of sugar refinery, Saccarhvm

Sugar industry Sugarcane Water mills

artist: Straet, Jan van der, 1523-1605
publisher: Galle, Jan, 1600-1676