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6203B

Decorated Initial (White Roman H over a peacock against a landscape)

Decorated Initial (White Roman H over a peacock against a landscape)

6203B
Artist
Workshop of Antonio Ricardo (but only as a printer?)
Title
Decorated Initial (White Roman H over a peacock against a landscape)
Date
1585
Medium
Woodcut. Measurements? Printed in Tercero Cathecismo[.] Lima: Antonio Ricardo, 1585.
Location
Antigua Imprenta de Antonio Ricardo, Lima, Perú.
Photo Source
Mori 2013a. Not reproduced at scale vis-à-vis the images of the impressions in 6203A.
Correspondence Credit
Almerindo Ojeda
Note
Line-by-line similarites between the images of 6203A and 6203B suggest that these letters were printed from one and the same type. Said type was printed in Seville by Juan Gutiérrez in 1569. Antonio Ricardo was an Italian typographer who worked in Venice, Lyon, Valladolid, and Medina del Campo. In 1570, Ricardo left Europe and traveled to Mexico to become one of the first publishers of the New World. It follows that Ricardo could have acquired this type in Seville —the required point of departure for the Indies— and brought it along in his transatlantic journey. Ricardo could then print these types in Lima, where he relocated in 1580.
Item
6203B
Correspondences
Archive: 6203A/6203B
Archive: 6203A/6203B
6203A/6203B