Thistle (recto) and Thistle buds (verso) from Gart Der Gesundheit (also called Hortus sanitatis, or Garden of Health), Plate 32 from Woodcuts from Books of the 15th Century
1485, portfolio assembled 1929
Accession Number
129332
Medium
Woodcut in black with hand-colored additions and letterpress in black with rubrication (recto and verso) on cream laid paper, tipped onto cream wove paper mat
Dimensions
Image, recto: 16.5 × 9.5 cm (6 1/2 × 3 3/4 in.); Image, verso: 14.5 × 7.2 cm (5 3/4 × 2 7/8 in.); Sheet: 26.5 × 20 cm (10 7/16 × 7 7/8 in.)
Classification
woodcut
Credit Line
Print Sales Miscellaneous Fund
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