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Image title: Printers’ Ornament
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.

Dimensions: 85 x 45mm (3.3 x 1.8 inches)
Filename: 058-printers-ornament-q75-681x373.jpg
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