6052A
Decorated Initials
Decorated Initials
- Artist
- Workshops of Martín de Montesdoca (active between 1553 and 1558) and Juan Gutiérrez (active between 1559 and 1572)
- Title
- Decorated Initials (White Roman letters with black striations over black floral decorations over white backgrounds)
- Date
- 1558
- Medium
- Woodcut (or woodcut standing-in for a lost woodblock). 23mm. x 23mm. each. Documented in the following works: Domingo de Valtanás OP, Segunda parte de la exposición de los Evangelios[.] Sevilla: Martín de Montesdoca, 1558 [Letters V, Q (shown here)] — Domingo de Valtanás OP, Paradoxas y sentencias escogidas[.] Sevilla: Martín de Montesdoca, 1558 [Letter P] — San Buenaventura, Vidas de San Francisco y Santa Clara. Sevilla: en casa de Juan Gutiérrez impressor de libros en la calde [sic] Genova, 1560 [Letters L, V (both shown here)] — Missale Divinorum […] Ecclesie Hispalensis[.] Hispali [Sevilla]: apud Ioa[n]nem Gotherium, 1565 [Letters C, D, F, H, S (all five shown here)]. Letters A, B, E, I, K, P, R have been scanned from Klaus Wagner, Martín de Montesdoca y su prensa. Sevilla: Universidad de Sevilla, 1982, pp. 161-162.
- Photo Source
- John Carter Brown Library || Google Books || Libreria del Colegio de la Concepción de Alcalá || Universidad de Sevilla / HathiTrust Digital Library. Not reproduced at scale vis-à-vis the images of the impressions in 6052B.
- Item
- 6052A