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Hand-coloured woodcut of an onion with curling green leaves, yellow and rose bulb, and roots, on a page of faint printed text.

Onion, woodcut from Ortus sanitatis (1491)

A hand-coloured woodcut of an onion bulb with long green leaves curling upward and a tangle of roots below. The bulb is shaded in yellow, white and rose with fine hatching lines, set against faint printed text on the page. The style is typical of late fifteenth-century botanical book illustration.

Artist
Unknown
Date
23 June 1491
Medium
Incunabula
Source
Wellcome Collection
Size
2829 × 4000 px
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Public domain · Wellcome Collection marks it Public Domain Mark; made by 1491.
Rights checked 2026-11-05 · tier A · as stated by the source: Public Domain Mark (Wellcome Collection)

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Anatomy and Medicine15th century1490s1491woodcuthand-colored printnatural historybotanyincunabulaortus sanitatismedicinal plantsherbal illustrationrenaissance book illustration

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