6070A

Decorated Initials

Artist: Workshop of Jean Crespin (active in the 16th century)
Title: Decorated Initials (White Roman letters over children-and-vine decorations over a criblé background).
Date: 1536
Medium: Criblé woodcut, 45mm x 45mm. Printed in the Biblia breves in eadem annotationes[.] Lyon: Jean Crespin printing for himself, Scipion de Gabiano, Jacopus Giunta, Vincent de Portinariis I, and Henri Savore, 1536
Photo Source: Rodríguez-Buckingham 1977, figs. 167-172 and PESSCA Archive.
Item: 6070A