Foliage Scrolls with a Flower, Wild Men and Women, and Insects

Foliage Scrolls with a Flower, Wild Men and Women, and Insects

RP-P-OB-1145

collector's mark: Lugt 240

Medieval stories abound with tales of wild men and women – mythical woodland dwellers – who indulge in excessive sexual activity. The highly imaginative flower in the middle of the representation illustrates the pleasure to which humans and animals aspire. Men and women help one another to achieve it, while others fight each other for it.

Orn Cat I 362

print maker: Israhel van Meckenem (mentioned on object), Bocholt (Duitsland)

c. 1490 - c. 1500

gravure

height 208 mm x width 139 mm

Public domain

• Orn Cat I 362
• Hollstein German 624-2(2)
• The Illustrated Bartsch 207-

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