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| Image title: | Border detail: two-faced drollery |
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| Source: | Alighieri, Dante: “La Vita Nuova (The New Life)” (1910) |
| Place shown: | none |
| Keywords: | drolleries, mythical creatures, colour |
| Status: | out of copyright (called public domain in the USA), hence royalty-free stock image for all purposes usage credit requested Please do not redistribute without permission, since running this site is expensive. |
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A drollery; these were strange and grotesque creatures placed in the margins of manuscripts by mediaeval scribes. This one is from 1910, in imitation of mediaeval drolleries. It is a creature with a face at both ends. |
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| Blog image: | http://fromoldbooks.org/r/u/076-border-detail-janus-q85-415x500.jpg |
| Blog link: | http://fromoldbooks.org/r/u/pages/076-border-detail-janus/ |
| Artist: | Evelyn Paul (1870 – 1945) |
| Scanner dpi: | 1200 |
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