6066A

Decorated Initials

Artist: Workshops of Richard Grafton (ca. 1506/7 – 1573) and Edward Whitechurch (active between 1537 and 1552; d. 1561)
Title: Decorated Initials (a set which includes series 46 of the Harvard 1974 catalog of Plantin ornamental initials).
Date: By 1552
Medium: Woodcut. Measurements? Documented in the following works: Church of England. Book of Common Prayer. London: Richard Grafton, 1549 [Letters B, C, I, M (shown here), O, P, S, T, V] — Church of England. Book of Common Prayer. London: Edward Whitechurch, 1552 [Letters A, B, C, E, F, G, H, I, K, N, O, P, R, S, T, V, W, Y (all eighteen shown here)].

Photo Source: Boston Public Library / Internet Archive. Not reproduced at scale vis-à-vis the images of the impressions in 6066B.
Item: 6066A

Correspondences: Archive: 6066A/6066B; Archive: 6066A/6066B; Archive: 6066A/6066B; 6066A/6066B