Portrait of Petrarch in the Incipit Letter “N”
Nature and garden imagery abound in the poetry of Petrarch (d. 1374), one of the great scholars and authors of the Renaissance. This letter N depicts Petrarch holding branches of a laurel tree, a symbol of poetry and knowledge personified by his beloved deceased Laura, his mus...
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Sir George Holdford; Sale, Sotheby's, London, 1929, no. 6, pl. 11; B. Quaritch [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [Cat. 1931, p. 98-99]; Harvey Frost [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Sale, London, October 1955 [Maggs Bros. Ltd. as agent]; Walters Art Museum, 1955, by purchase.
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