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 189
(51), that they were scratched with a point outof a layer of pigment on the glass. The lettersAUDEO, SPERO (131) have a certain Portu-guese look, but the character of fretwork is muchmore emphatically marked in them than that ofnationality; and the cyphers which form so frequenta feature upon old… … 132. CUT LEATHER. ITALIAN. In event of an artist not duly observing thecharacter proper to material, it has a way ofretaliating. The inscription, for example, on thebeautiful French lock opposite (133), is toomuch of a tour-de-force in piercing; the lettersare over frail for chiselled iron, with…
Lettering · Initials · Decoration and ornament
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