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| Image title: | Printers’ Ornament |
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| Source: | Holme, Charles: “Art in England During the Elizabethan and Stuart Periods” (1908) |
| Place shown: | none |
| Keywords: | ornaments, printing, greyscale |
| Status: | stock image royalty-free for non-commercial uses only, usage credit required Please do not redistribute without permission, since running this site is expensive. |
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This decorative ornament was used after the text at the end of a chapter. Such printing ornaments used to be fairly common. This one has a has a central area that could be used as a cartouch, that is, a place to put writing or numbers or a design. There are also birds’ heads, possibly intended to be gryphons, eyeing urns of fuit. |
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| Dimensions: | 85 x 45mm (3.3 x 1.8 inches) |
| Filename: | 058-printers-ornament-q75-1211x664.jpg |
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| Scanner dpi: | 2400 |
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