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Grame Noüeux
Gnarled Grass
Grame Noüeux
French
1615 (block likely cut 1586)
Medium/Technique
Woodcut, hand-colored in green and brown
Dimensions
Sheet: 15 × 11.5 cm (5 7/8 × 4 1/2 in.)
Image: 11.9 × 6.6 cm (4 11/16 × 2 5/8 in.)
Image: 11.9 × 6.6 cm (4 11/16 × 2 5/8 in.)
Credit Line
Bequest of Eleanor A. Sayre
Accession Number2002.575
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CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
DescriptionExtracted from Jacques Dalechamps, Histoire générale des plantes, Contenant Xviii. Livres (Lyon: Guillaume Rouille, 1615): I:360. The verso bears a woodcut of Grame polyantes/ AEgylopes de Pline, from p. 359. The blocks for this edition were likely cut for the Latin edition of the same book: Historia generalis plantarum (Lugduni: Apud Gvlielmvm Rovillivm, 1586).
Marks
Verso, lower left, stamped in brown ink, the mark of the MFA (Lugt 282)
InscriptionsIn letterpress, above the image: 360 Liure IV. de l'Hi[stoire...] / Grame noüeux
ProvenanceEleanor A. Sayre, Cambridge, MA; bequest to MFA