Initial letter capital V with mountain rescuedetails

Initial letter capital V with mountain rescue

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A curly-haired young man cradles a barefoot child in one arm as he hangs on to a branch, standing on rocks on a cliff-face. Above him, nestled inside a letter “V”, a large bird, i think an eagle.

Or is it a stork’s nest, delivering a baby, and does that explain the youth’s eager smile?

The decorated (historiated) initial is signed A LEWÝ, whish is probably Antonín Josef Lewý (1845–1897).

This is a vignetted intial (because the picture gous outside the letter) and an inhabited initial (it has people in it) and a historiated initial (it depicts a scene). It was used as a decorated drop cap in th ebook, where it was 30 lines high (of which several stuck up before the first line to align the base of the “V” with the fifth line of text.

initials, letterv, rescue, children, bare feet, birds, nests, climbing, branches, rocks, inhabited initials

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2314 dots per inch (approximately)