Also received these two Hans Weiditz woodcuts from a German edition of Petrarch’s Trostspiegel, 1559. A lovely wheel of fortune and a representation of insanity.

Also received these two Hans Weiditz woodcuts from a German edition of Petrarch’s Trostspiegel, 1559. A lovely wheel of fortune and a representation of insanity.
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Also received these two Hans Weiditz woodcuts from a German edition of Petrarch’s Trostspiegel, 1559. A lovely wheel of fortune and a representation of insanity.

Source: The internet is a place of theft. And I was a notorious thief here. Shame on me, but I will make amends if I ever have EEBO access again. But life out here is hard for the unaffiliated academic.

First posted on Twitter for #WoodcutWednesday on 21 January 2021: the original tweet.

Here endeth this leaf of the Commonplace Book, which ſheweth Also received these two Hans Weiditz woodcuts from a German edition…, the work of its first makers and not of this preſs; only the caption is the Senſeſhaper’s. Copied into this book the twenty-firſt day of January, 2021. Finis.

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