| Image title: | Decorative chapter head with winged creatures |
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| Source: | Rodwell, G. F.: “South by East: Notes of Travel in Southern Europe” (1877) |
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| Keywords: | chapterheads, greyscale |
| Status: | out of copyright (called public domain in the USA), hence royalty-free stock image for all purposes usage credit requested |
Notes: |
A decorative woodcut used at the start of the chapter on Milan; there are dragons, or possibly gryphons but with tails like serpents, and in the centre a face with hair done in pigtails; the whole is rather like the decoration one might see on a Roman sarcophagus. |
| Filename: | 020-chapter-head-dragons-q75-500x108.jpg |
| Blog image: | http://fromoldbooks.org/r/w/020-chapter-head-dragons-q75-500x108.jpg |
| Blog link: | http://fromoldbooks.org/r/w/pages/020-chapter-head-dragons/ |
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| Scanner dpi: | 2400 |
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