6203B

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

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