6053A
Decorated Initials
Decorated Initials
- Artist
- Workshop of Juan Gutiérrez (active between 1559 and 1572)
- Title
- Decorated Initials (White Roman intitials over tesellated floral backgrounds).
- Date
- 1560
- Medium
- Woodcut (or woodcut standing-in for a lost woodblock). Measurements? Documented in the following works: Missale Divinorum […] Ecclesie Hispalensis[.] Hispali [Sevilla]: apud Ioa[n]nem Gotherium, 1565 [Letters A, B, C, D, E, G, H, L, M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T, V (all shown here)] — Fray Philippe de Sosa, Libro […] de la excelencia del Sancto Evangelio[.] Sevilla: en Casa de Iuan Gutierrez, 1569 [1570] [Letter C].
- Photo Source
- Biblioteca Provincial y Universitaria de Sevilla || Libreria del Colegio de la Concepción de Alcalá / HathiTrust Digital Library. Not reproduced at scale vis-à-vis the images of the impressions in 6053B.
- Note
- Letters M and Q have been documented in works edited by Juan de León II, a publisher active in Seville between 1585 and 1617 (see Eduardo Peñalver Gómez, La imprenta en Sevilla en el siglo XVII, pp. 577-578).
- Item
- 6053A
