6055A
Decorated Initials
Decorated Initials
- Artist
- Workshop of Juan Gutiérrez (active between 1559 and 1572)
- Title
- Decorated Intials (White Roman initials over historiated backgrounds).
- Date
- 1569
- Medium
- Woodcut (or woodcut standing-in for a lost woodblock). About 29mm x 29mm. Documented in the following works: Fray Philippe de Sosa, Libro […] de la excelencia del Sancto Evangelio[.] Sevilla: en Casa de Iuan Gutierrez, 1569 [1570] [Letters B, D, E, L, P, S, T, Y (all but D shown here)] — Luis Mexia Ponce de León, Laconismus[.] Sevilla: Apud Ioannem Gotherrium Typographum, in via Genuensi, 1569 [Letters B, C (shown here), D (shown here), E, I (shown here), L, O (shown here), P, Q (shown here), V (shown here)].
- Photo Source
- Libreria del Colegio de la Concepción de Alcalá / HathiTrust Digital Library || Universidad Complutense de Madrid / Google Books. Not reproduced at scale vis-à-vis the images of the impressions in 6055B.
- Item
- 6055A