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

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.)
Genre: woodcut
Museum: Art Institute of Chicago

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