6089A

Fleuron d'Arabesque

Artist: Workshop of Francisco del Canto I (active between 1554 and 1590)
Title: Fleuron d'Arabesque
Date: 1580
Medium: Metalcut. After a design attributed to Robert Granjon (1513-1590). Printed in the following works: R. P. Diego Velásquez, Regina Coeli[.] Medina del Campo: Francisco del Campo I para Bernardo Boyer, 1580 — Crónica troyana. Traducida por Pedro Núñez Delgado. Medina del Campo: Francisco del Canto I para Bernardo Boyer, 1587.
Photo Source: Biblioteca Nacional de España / Biblioteca Digital Hispánica. Not reproduced to scale.
Note: The elementary forms of this fleuron (or examples of designs based on them) were catalogued in the Egenolff-Berner specimen sheet of 1592, in Les caracteres et les vignettes de la fonderie du Sieur Delacolonge. Lyon, 1773 (Vignette 233), and in John Dreyfus, Type specimen facsimiles. London: 1962-1973 (Specimen I, 2).
Item: 6089A