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DAY & FABER master drawings

    Folio 136: “In 1547, this fine wheat grew…

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    in the county of Flanders, three miles from Ghent, in various forms and shapes – several pressed closely together, several with separated ears, as well as with four, eight, twelve, up to fifteen ears on one stalk, as it is painted here.
    Margaretha Weiß von Roth, thirteen and a half years old
    A wondrous miracle in 1539, of a young girl from Roth in the Diocese of Speyer, who abstained from physical sustenance for two years and twelve weeks. At that time such hairy grapes also grew at the Neckar and the Rhine as above.”

    Folio 136: “In 1547, this fine wheat grew…