Portrait of Magino Gabrielli, Jewish inventor, Venice, 16th cent, 1867 (engraving)

Portrait of Magino Gabrielli or Magino Meir, Jewish inventor, Venice, 16th century. Magino reads from his book about extracting silk thread from the cocoon twice a year., while a black boy beats a drum. He wears a short mantle, violet doublet, breeches and hose. Costumes Venitien. From a handcoloured woodcut in Dialoghi di Magino Gabrielli Hebreo Venetiano, 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.