The Housebook Master (?) Middle Rhenish, active c. 1465/1500 Garden of Love, from The Housebook, 1475-1485 metalpoint and pen and ink with watercolor and metal leaf Collection of the Princes of Waldburg-Wolfegg

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The left half of this drawing is derived from an engraving by the Master E.S., The Large Love Garden, and the right half of the drawing extends the view across a river into a landscape. Here a young man wearing the stole and insignia of the Order of the Pitcher escorts a woman toward the river bank and the Love Garden on the opposite shore. Mine shafts are cut into the mountain behind them. A water wheel used to pump water out of mines looms in the foreground.

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