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

Prints and Drawings

1485, portfolio assembled 1929

Attributed to Erhard Reuwich (Dutch, c. 1455–c. 1490)
printed and published by Peter Schöffer (German, c. 1425–c. 1503)
original text by Johann Wonnecke von Cube (German, c. 1430–1503)
portfolio text by Wilhelm Ludwig Schreiber (German, 1855–1932)

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Erhard Reuwich
Title: 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
Place: Netherlands (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: Original 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.)
Credit Line: Print Sales Miscellaneous Fund
Reference Number: 1938.86.32
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Schreiber 4332

Hain 8948

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