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Decorative initial letter T with cherubs hanging a wolfFabrica... (1543)

A decorative initial letter “T” used as a drop cap on the introduction to the “Epitome;” this version is coloured in red and blue and yellow (or gold) and comes from a copy at the University of Cambri [...]

Keywords: lettert, initials, cherubs, children, nudity, historiated initials, inhabited initials, bare feet, animals, wolves, punishments, colour

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Added: 2014-11-24

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Mediaeval Border from Title PageThe 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, inhabited borders, floriated borders, greyscale

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Added: 2011-03-20

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Initial Letter T WoodcutA 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 TOld 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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Floriated 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, floriated initials, greyscale

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Added: 2011-04-17

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Floriated initial letter T, coloured versionOld 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, gold, yellow, green, colour, floriated initials

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Added: 2011-04-17

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Historiated decorative initial capital letter T in BlueItalian 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, blue, colour

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Added: 2011-05-31

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Initial letter T with sundial and scytheIn the Grip of the Corsair (1898)

This capital letter “T” is a vignetted initial—that is, an initial letter with a drawing around it rather than inside it. The vignette, or scene, shows a fluted stone pillar or pedestal with a sundial [...]

Keywords: lettert, initials, death, spooky, scythes, sundials, vignetted initials, fields, outdoors, time, greyscale

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Added: 2015-09-30

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Decorative Cap “T” With FlowersOld 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. 1The 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, red, colour

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Added: 2003-05-26

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Letter T from page 47Old 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 CenturyOrnamental Alphabets, Ancient and Mediæval (1879)

This ornamental capital “t” in white on black is suitable for use as a drop cap (dropped capital) or a decorative initial. It is taken from a sixteenth-century alphabet in white on black. a b c d e [...]

Keywords: lettert, initials, greyscale, foliated initials

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Added: 2021-09-24

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Decorative initial letter “T” from 16th CenturyOrnamental 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 bookAlphabets & 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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clipart: initial letter T from beginning of the 16th CenturyAlphabets & Numbers of the Middle Ages (1845)

Wood cut of a decorated initial letter “T” (e.g. for a drop cap or ornamental capital letter), from the beginning of the 16th Century. There is a white calligraphic capital “T” with interwoven leaves, [...]

Keywords: lettert, initials, calligraphy, floriated initials, criblé, greyscale

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Added: 2019-04-20

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Decorative initial letter T from fifteenth Century Nos. 4 and 5.The Art of Illuminating As Practised in Europe from the Earliest Times (1860)

Decorative initial letter T from Fifteenth Century No. 4.

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Keywords: lettert, initials, calligraphy, red, blue, colour

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Added: 2009-09-18

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Calligraphic initial leter TLa Vita Nuova (The New Life) (1910)

This decorative initial “T” was used a drop cap. It has been drawn in a mediaeval calligraphic style, and was printed in a reddish-yellow ink, a sort of gold colour. I cannot say for certain whether [...]

Keywords: initials, lettert, yellow, gold, colour, calligraphy

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Added: 2010-12-18

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Decorative initial letter ‘T”Religion in the Home (1913)

A decorative initial letter T used as a drop cap; this one has a cherub with a Star of David, a wreath and a ribbon; it is used at the start of a chapter on the Book of Deuteronomy, and has Jewish sym [...]

Keywords: lettert, initials, inhabited initials, cherubs, stars, religion, judaism, greyscale

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Added: 2009-12-01

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Initial Letter T With Cherubs and Dancing CoupleAllegorien und Embleme, Vol II (1882)

This vignetted initial shows a dance, with couples wearing elaborate clothing; the front-most couple is shown in detail and the others as shadowy sketches. A putto or cherub, a naked boy in the sky, p [...]

Keywords: cherubs, romance, love, dancing, putti, wings, initials, lettert, music, vignetted initials, greyscale

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Added: 2018-08-30

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