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Vignetted Letter W With Bird in forestIm Wechsel Der Tage (1885)

A rustic initial letter W with a built-in illustration showing a bird sitting on a twig and singing, with winter trees in the background: the bird is perhaps heralding the Spring.

Keywords: letterw, initials, spring, birds, trees, vignetted initials, greyscale

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Added: 2014-10-03

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

Calligraphic letter W from XIV. Century No. 1.

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Keywords: letterw, initials, calligraphy, red, colour

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Added: 2003-05-26

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Decorative initial letter “W” from 16th CenturyOrnamental Alphabets, Ancient and Mediæval (1879)

This ornamental capital “W” 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. I made this [...]

Keywords: letterw, initials, greyscale, foliated initials

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Added: 2021-09-24

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

This decorative initial letter “W”, or drop cap, is from an alphabet designed by Hans Holbein and dating from 1523. Death, depicted as a skeleton, comes for a hermit wearing a robe (not to be called a [...]

Keywords: letterw, initials, death, skeletons, religion, people, greyscale

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Added: 2010-03-21

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Initial letter WLetters & Lettering: A Treatise With 200 Examples (1921)

The drop capital (drop cap) “W” from Fig. 67 shows a naked man in a forest. He plays a flute. His bare feet protrude from the boundary of the initial. You can see this initial as it was set in type [...]

Keywords: typography, initials, letterw, greyscale

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Added: 2006-08-14

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clipart: initial letter W from beginning of the 16th CenturyAlphabets & Numbers of the Middle Ages (1845)

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

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

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Added: 2011-06-15

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W with two horses and ridersMr. Sponge’s Sporting Tour (1856)

A decorative initial letter “W” with the W made from four fence-posts or tree-trunks, and with two men wearing hats, each riding a horse about to pass through one or other half of the letter. This ill [...]

Keywords: letterw, initials, horses, animals, people, riding, hunting, greyscale

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Added: 2011-07-03

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Ornate initial letter “W” with silhouettes of naked womenSouth by East: Notes of Travel in Southern Europe (1877)

This ornate capital letter W has a long vertical tail or stem of trellis-work beneath the letter, which is an “inhabited initial” with two women inside it. One of the women, who are drawn as dark shad [...]

Keywords: letterw, initials, inhabited initials, women, nudity, religion, sacrifice, rituals, greyscale

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Added: 2015-10-12

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Letters U V W X Y and Z from English gothic Letters, 15th CenturyLetters & Lettering: A Treatise With 200 Examples (1921)

Black-letter (Old English) inital letters “U” “V” “W” “X” “Y” and “Z” from English gothic Letters, 15th Century. It is possible that the author of the modern (1921) book added the J, the U and possibl [...]

Keywords: calligraphy, blackletter, letteru, letterv, letterw, letterx, lettery, letterz, greyscale

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Added: 2007-08-28

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