Portrait of Petrarch in the Incipit Letter “N”

ca. 1480 (Renaissance)

13.6 cm 21.5 cm

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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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