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 99
542. artist has always felt himself free to depart fromthe usual practice when that did not suit hispurpose. If he had no need of any definite line,he preferred perhaps merely to break the surfaceof the background with quite irregular lettering.He made bold, if need wrere, to place the letters… … 42. STONE GRAVE SLAB, GOTLAND, 1316. or to introduce them into the details of the pictureitself. The nimbus of a saint was, for example, soconvenient to his hand, that it seems almost as ifit must have been designed to be inscribed withhis name. The mere writing of the letters in aring round his…
Lettering · Initials · Decoration and ornament
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