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The Marriage of Hosea and Gomer in a Historiated Initial "V" from a Bible
English (Cambridge)
1345/48
- Medium
- Tempera and gold leaf, with gothica textualis inscriptions in Latin in light brown ink, rubrics in red ink, and ruled in light brown ink, on parchment
- Classification
- Drawing and Watercolor
- Dimensions
- Initial: 6 × 8 cm (2 3/8 × 3 3/16 in.); Sheet: 45 × 31 cm (17 3/4 × 12 1/4 in.)
- Culture
- England
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago, Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Samuel P. Avery Endowment Fund
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
