# 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

- By: Erhard Reuwich (printed and published by Peter Schöffer (German, c. 1425–c. 1503); original text by Johann Wonnecke von Cube (German,…)
- 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
- 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
- Credit line: Print Sales Miscellaneous Fund
- Museum: [Art Institute of Chicago](https://www.artic.edu/artworks/129332)
- Rights: [Public domain (CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://www.artic.edu/iiif/2/679849bc-b835-625e-355f-d35677c3e186/full/!1920,1080/0/default.jpg
- Who can see it: Little Ones profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)