About this artwork
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Status
- Currently Off View
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Department
- Prints and Drawings
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Artist
- Erhard Reuwich
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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
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Place
- Netherlands (Artist's nationality:)
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Date
- Original 1485
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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
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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.)
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Credit Line
- Print Sales Miscellaneous Fund
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Reference Number
- 1938.86.32
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IIIF Manifest
- https://api.artic.edu/api/v1/artworks/129332/manifest.json
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