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

Art Institute of Chicago

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

Attributed to Erhard Reuwich (Dutch, c. 1455–c. 1490)

Date
1485, portfolio assembled 1929
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
Culture
Netherlands
Department
Prints and Drawings
Institution
Art Institute of Chicago

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