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6055A

Decorated Initials

Decorated Initials

6055A
Artist
Workshop of Juan Gutiérrez (active between 1559 and 1572)
Title
Decorated Intials (White Roman initials over historiated backgrounds).
Date
1569
Medium
Woodcut (or woodcut standing-in for a lost woodblock). About 29mm x 29mm.  Documented in the following works: Fray Philippe de Sosa, Libro […] de la excelencia del Sancto Evangelio[.] Sevilla: en Casa de Iuan Gutierrez, 1569 [1570] [Letters B, D, E, L, P, S, T, Y (all but D shown here)] — Luis Mexia Ponce de León, Laconismus[.] Sevilla: Apud Ioannem Gotherrium Typographum, in via Genuensi, 1569 [Letters B, C (shown here), D (shown here), E, I (shown here), L, O (shown here), P, Q (shown here), V (shown here)].
Photo Source
Libreria del Colegio de la Concepción de Alcalá / HathiTrust Digital Library || Universidad Complutense de Madrid / Google Books. Not reproduced at scale vis-à-vis the images of the impressions in 6055B. 
Item
6055A
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