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| Image title: | Decorated (Historiated) initial letter A by Valerio Spada [1656] |
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| Source: | Reed, Sue Welsh & Wallace, Richard: “Italian Etchers of the Renaissance & Baroque” (1989) |
| Item date: | 1656 |
| Place shown: | none |
| Keywords: | lettera, letters, people, bucolic scenes, frames, 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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Initial letter “A” from a historiated alphabet by Valerio Spada. Seventeeth century Italian people: a person with a walking-stick or cane, and wearing hat and coat, sits under a tree; another person gestures, and a small dog wags its tail. The four winds, or possibly cherub’s heads, at the corners of the circular frame. The whole alphabet - a - b - c - d |
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| Filename: | 0127-HistoriatedAlphabet-letter-a-q75-500x455.jpg |
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| Blog link: | http://fromoldbooks.org/r/3C/pages/0127-HistoriatedAlphabet-letter-a/ |
| Artist: | Valerio Spada (1613 – 1688) |
| Scanner dpi: | 2400 |
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