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

Erhard Reuwich (printed and published by Peter Schöffer (German, c. 1425–c. 1503); original text by Johann Wonnecke von Cube (German,…)

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
Classification: Print
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.)
Culture: Netherlands
Museum: Art Institute of Chicago, Prints and Drawings
Credit line: Print Sales Miscellaneous Fund
Rights: Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it: Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. How works are placed