Printers’ Ornament details |
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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 requested | |
Notes: |
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-q75-375x205.jpg | |
| Blog link: | http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Holme-ArtInEngland/pages/058-printers-ornament//058-printers-ornament-q75-500x274.jpg | |
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