Bourgeois lady of Venice, 16th century. The woman hands bags of silk-worm eggs for her maids to warm in their bosoms. Bourgeoises de Venise. From a woodcut by in a book about extracting silk thread from the cocoon twice a year, Dialoghi di M. Magino Gabrielli Hebreo venetiano, Venice, 1588. Handcolored lithograph after an illustration by Edmond Lechevallier-Chevignard from Georges Duplessis's Costumes historiques des XVIe, XVIIe et XVIIIe siecles (Historical costumes of the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries), Paris, 1867. Edmond Lechevallier-Chevignard was an artist, book illustrator, and int

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Bourgeois lady of Venice, 16th century. The woman hands bags of silk-worm eggs for her maids to warm in their bosoms. Bourgeoises de Venise. From a woodcut by in a book about extracting silk thread from the cocoon twice a year, Dialoghi di M. Magino Gabrielli Hebreo venetiano, Venice, 1588. Handcolored lithograph after an illustration by Edmond Lechevallier-Chevignard from Georges Duplessis's Costumes historiques des XVIe, XVIIe et XVIIIe siecles (Historical costumes of the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries), Paris, 1867. Edmond Lechevallier-Chevignard was an artist, book illustrator, and interior designer.

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