Von der Artzney bayder Glück (De Remediis Utriusque Fortuna) (On the Remedies of Good and Evil Fortune), 1532

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Medium

bound volume with 257 woodcut illustrations, including one portrait of the author and including full page woodcuts on the recto and verso of each title page; white-on-black initials, tailpieces, and borderpieces throughout.

Dimensions

overall (bk): 30.8 x 21 x 5.6 cm (12 1/8 x 8 1/4 x 2 3/16 in.)

Credit Line

Anonymous Gift

Accession Number

2007.23.1

Artists / Makers

Hans Weiditz, II (artist) German, 1500 or before - c. 1536

Francesco Petrarch (author) Italian, 1304 - 1374

Georg Spalatin (translator) German, 1484 - 1545

Peter Stahl (translator) German (?), active early 16th century

Image Use

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Inscription

in front cover in ink: F. Petrarch; on title page in ink: Ex libris/Thomae Prasi Capellari Wolfpu(e?)rgensis / 1673; in ink on top of text block: SEGGER

Provenance

Thomae Prasl Capellani Wolfpu[e?] rgensis, 1673; (Daniela Laube Fine Art, New York); Purchased 2007 by NGA.

Associated Names

Daniela Laube Inc. Fine Art
Michael Altman Fine Art

Exhibition History

2008: Medieval to Modern: Recent Acquisitions of Drawings, Prints, and Illustrated Books, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2008, no. 31 b.

2012: Imperial Augsburg: Renaissance Prints and Drawings, 1475-1540, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX; Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center at Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY, 2012-2014, nos. 63 and 64.

Bibliography

2007: Daniela Laube Fine Art, Catalogue 3, 2007, no. 3.