Von der Artzney bayder Glück (De Remediis Utriusque Fortuna) (On the Remedies of Good and Evil Fortune)
1532
Francesco Petrarch (author) and Hans Weiditz, II (artist)
Artist, German, 1500 or before - c. 1536
Author, Italian, 1304 - 1374
Translator, German, 1484 - 1545
Translator, German (?), active early 16th century
Artwork overview
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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.
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall (bk): 30.8 x 21 x 5.6 cm (12 1/8 x 8 1/4 x 2 3/16 in.)
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Accession Number
2007.23.1
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Thomae Prasl Capellani Wolfpu[e?] rgensis, 1673; (Daniela Laube Fine Art, New York); Purchased 2007 by NGA.
Associated Names
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.
Inscriptions
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