Featured on PDR in the collection Rainbow-coloured Beasts from 15th-Century Book of Hours

A selection of wonderful little illustrations found in a Book of Hours attributed to an artist of the Ghent-Bruges school and dating from the late 15th century. In the pages without full borders the margins have been decorated with an array of different images depicting flowers, birds, jewellery, animals, household utensils and these superb rainbow-coloured 'grotesques'.

Date

ca. 1495

From

Hours use of Rome, Beinecke MS 287


Underlying Rights

Public Domain Worldwide

Digital Rights

No Additional Rights


Image Size

600 x 640 Higher res available?

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