Peregrinatio in terram sanctam (Journey to the Holy Land)
Erhard Reuwich
1486
Medium
Book with letterpress and woodcuts in black on cream laid paper
Dimensions
Closed: 32 × 23 × 3.5 cm (12 5/8 × 9 1/16 × 1 7/16 in.)
Classification
book
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
60752
About the Artist
Erhard Reuwich · 1425–1503
Erhard Reuwich (ca. 1445–ca. 1500) was a pioneering German artist and printmaker whose illustrations for the first printed travel book revolutionized European book illustration. Coming from a family of painters in Utrecht, with his father likely being Hildebrand Reuwich, Dean of the painters' guild in 1470, Erhard represented a new generation of artists who recognized printing's transformative pot...