# Treatise on Silk Culture and Manufacture \(Series of Thirteen Drawings, No. 3\) [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [ARCIMBOLDO, Giuseppe]() - Date: 1551-1600 - Technique: Pen blue ink and blue wash on paper, 308 x 190 mm ## Commentary Treatise on Silk Culture and Manufacture \(Series of Thirteen Drawings, No. 3\) c. 1586 Pen blue ink and blue wash on paper, 308 x 190 mm Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Drawing No. 3 depicts the selection and cleaning of the mulberry leaves that are their only food. ## Related artworks - [Air]() - [Archduchess Anna, Daughter of Emperor Maximilian II]() - [Archduchess Johanna]() - [Autumn]() - [Autumn]() - [Birds]() - [Birds]() - [Birds]() - [Birds]() - [Blackbuck]() - [Blue-Headed Quail-Dove]() - [Bust of a Daughter of Ferdinand I]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()