Lettering in ornament; an enquiry into the decorative use of lettering, past, present, and possible (1902)
Day, Lewis Foreman, 1845-1910 · London, B. T. Batsford · leaf 138
wmm® 73. SLAVONIC INSCRIPTION OF THE l6TH CENTURY, io3 ease of his treatment: he can play with it; andyet, for all his playfulness, it never degeneratesinto frivolity. He reduced to ornament eventhe early monumental chisel-cut character, therigid and angular Cufic, not very much likelettering to… … 74. BACK OF A CARVED PERSIAN MIRROR FRAME. we are led to suspect a meaning in it; but his realopportunity came with the introduction of thesuaver cursive hand (ca. 1000), whose sweepinglines suggest, however executed, the stroke of theoriginal pen; and he seized upon it. It is inthis Neskhi…
Lettering · Initials · Decoration and ornament
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