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Tag Archives: Grotesque
Grotesque Frame from a 1547 Book
| Description | English: Title-page frame from an English book printed in 1547 |
| Date | 1547 |
| Source | Iniunccions geven by the Moste Excellent Prince, Edward the Sixte (https://archive.org/details/iniunccionsgeuen00chur/page/n27/mode/2up) |
| Author | Anonymous |
Globe
| Description | English: Globe from the title page of a treatise on cosmography printed in 1547 (with inscriptions removed) |
| Date | 1547 |
| Source | De principiis astronomiae et cosmographiae (https://archive.org/details/deprincipiisastr00gemm_0) |
| Author | Anonymous |
Grotesque Frames from Anvers, 1550
| Description | English: Decorative frame from a book printed in Anvers in 1550 |
| Date | 1550 |
| Source | Le Triumphe d’Anvers (https://archive.org/details/letriumphedanuer00grap/page/n5/mode/2up) |
| Author | Anonymous |
Title Page with Florence Cityscape
| Description | English: Frame from the title page of a book printed in Florence in 1550 |
| Date | 1550 |
| Source | L’idea del theatro dell’eccellen. M. Giulio Camillo (https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_Zad8v2LXaJsC) |
| Author | Anonymous |
Title Page for More’s “Utopia” by Hans Holbein the Younger
| Description | English: Title-page frame for Thomas More’s Utopia by Hans Holbein the Younger |
| Date | 1518 |
| Source | De optimo reip. statu, deque noua insula Vtopia (https://archive.org/details/deoptimoreipstat00more) |
| Author | Hans Holbein the Younger |
Grotesque Headpiece with Cherubs Riding Half-Vegetable Dragons Backwards
| Description | English: Grotesque headpiece from the title page of Las Casas’ Brevissima relacion de la destruycion de las Indias, 1552 |
| Date | 1552 |
| Source | Brevissima relacion de la destruycio de las Indias (https://archive.org/details/breuissimarelaci00casa/page/n5/mode/2up) |
| Author | Anonymous |
Renaissance Grotesque Frame
| Description | English: Grotesque frame from a 1538 edition of Ovid |
| Date | 1538 |
| Source | Pub. Ovidii Nasonis Heroides (https://archive.org/details/gri_33125008518702) |
| Author | Anonymous |
Mexican Grotesque Frame
| Description | English: Grotesque frame from the title page of a book printed in Mexico in 1554 |
| Date | 1554 |
| Source | Dialectica resolutio cum textu Aristotelis… (https://archive.org/details/dialecticaresolu00alon) |
| Author | Anonymous |
Grotesque Frame with Trophies
| Description | English: Title-page frame with grotesque foliage, cherubs, and trophies |
| Date | 1520 |
| Source | Repertorium librorum trium Ioannis Boemi de omnium gentium ritibus. Item index rerum scitu digniorum in eosdem. (https://archive.org/details/repertoriumlibro00unkn/page/n7/mode/2up) |
| Author | Anonymous |