4 0 c m
29cm
actual image size: 21cm x 32cm
Description
Portraits from Leonard Fuch's herbal, 'De historia stirpium', 1545, showing the artist, Albrecht Mayer (who drew the plants from nature), Veil Rudolph Speckle (who cut out the blocks) and Heinrich Fullmaurer (who transferred the drawings to the block).
Image Details
Image Ref.
10288873
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