Items matching lettert (results page 1)

Mediaeval Border from Title Page The Thames Illustrated: A Picturesque Journey from Richmond to Oxford (1897)

This 1890s Victorian book has an arts-and-crafts-inspired Mediaeval/medieval-style calligraphic title page drawing, a design based on manuscript books and early printed books. The full-page border in [...]

Keywords: borders, calligraphy, lettert, greyscale

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Added: 2011-03-20

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Initial Letter T Woodcut A Compleat Collection of English Proverbs (1737)

A decorative initial letter “T” used as a drop cap (drop capital). It features palm trees and buildings in the background, perhaps intended to be evocative of the Holy Land.

Keywords: initials, lettert, greyscale

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Added: 2007-07-31

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Letter T Old English Country Cottages (1906)

A decorative initial T from page 3, used as a drop cap, or capital.

Keywords: initials, lettert, greyscale

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Added: 2006-03-15

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Foliated initial letter “T” Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

An early Victorian capital letter T used as a 14-line drop cap. There is shading used to create a three-dimensional effect, enhanced by foliage going both behind and in front of the letter. I also ma [...]

Keywords: initials, lettert, leaves, greyscale

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Added: 2011-04-17

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Foliated initial letter T, coloured version Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

I coloured a decorative initial capital letter T that was at the start of a chapter.

Keywords: initials, lettert, colour, leaves

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Added: 2011-04-17

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Historiated decorative initial capital letter T in Blue Italian Etchers of the Renaissance & Baroque (1989)

Letter “T” from Valerio Spada’s historiated alphabet print from 1659. I have coloured the letter itself in blue; you could easily change the blue to something else of course.

Keywords: initials, lettert, historiated initials, colour

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Added: 2011-05-31

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Decorative Cap “T” With Flowers Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

A floriated initial letter capital “T” used as a 14-line drop cap at the start of a chapter. Drop capitals should normally align exactly with the the baseline of the nth line of text, but this design [...]

Keywords: lettert, initials, flowers, greyscale

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Added: 2012-05-21

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Clip-art: calligraphic decorative initial capital letter T from XIV. Century No. 1 The Art of Illuminating As Practised in Europe from the Earliest Times (1860)

Calligraphic letter T from XIV. Century No. 1.

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Keywords: lettert, initials, calligraphy, colour

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Added: 2003-05-26

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Letter T from page 47 Old English Country Cottages (1906)

A decorative initial used as a drop cap (drop capital) at the start of a chapter. The letter features an open casement window with two birds sitting on the top and another flying downwards. The birds [...]

Keywords: windows, birds, initials, lettert, greyscale

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Added: 2006-11-01

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Decorative initial letter “T” from 16th Century Ornamental Alphabets, Ancient and Mediæval (1879)

This capital letter “T” is suitable for use as a drop cap (dropped capital) or a decorative initial; there’s also a small version for an avatar or icon. It contains two phoenixes supporting the lette [...]

Keywords: lettert, initials, mythical creatures, phoenixes, greyscale

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Added: 2009-11-30

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62t.—Initial capital letter “T” from Dance of Death Alphabet. Die Bücher-Ornamentik Der Renaissance (Vol. I.) (1878)

This decorative initial letter “T”, or drop cap, is from an alphabet designed by Hans Holbein and dating from 1523. The skeleton figures in the alphabet represent death. The letter features a minstrel [...]

Keywords: lettert, initials, death, people, skeletons, greyscale

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Added: 2009-06-12

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clipart: initial letter T from late 15th century printed book Alphabets & Numbers of the Middle Ages (1845)

A decorative initial “T” taken from a late 15th century alphabet. You could use it as a drop capital, an avatar, or something to colour in. If you use it, let me know what you did! A B C D E F G G ( [...]

Keywords: lettert, initials, calligraphy, greyscale

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Added: 2008-10-22

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