Initial Letter W With Demon and Woman and Crescent Moondetails

Initial Letter W With Demon and Woman and Crescent Moon

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A decorative initial, vignetted, inhabited: a drop cap.

A large thin spidery letter W at the upper right of a picture of a naked man with wings and with horns on his head, a demon, perhaps, dragging a woman, barefoot but in a dress, seeming to rest on the crescent moon.

The illustration is reproduced mechanically, with varying sizes of dots, an early use of the dot screen. The largest sizes will print well in black and white, but test carefully for possible moiré patterns.

This initial letter introduced an article about a new (1890) edition of the Book of Songs (Buch der Lieder) by Heinrich Heine, with two hundred illusrtations by Friedrich Stahl.

initials, letterw, drop caps, demons, supernatural creatures, moon, nudity, bare feet, men, women, people, kidnapping, devils

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2314 dots per inch (approximately)