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Images scanned from The Art of Illuminating As Practised in Europe from the Earliest Times by W. R. Tymms, with an Essay and Instructions by M. D. Wyatt, Architect. London. Published April 2nd 1860 by Day and Son, Lithographers to the Queen.
There are 100 full colour plates in the book done in chromolithography, as well as a chromolithographed title page. I have only scanned a few because my scanner damages the binding. The text is by Matthew Digby Wyatt and the images appear to have been made by W. R. Tymms (and not Symms, as this page used to say).
Title: The Art of Illuminating As Practised in Europe from the Earliest Times
Date: 1860
Total items: 133
Out of copyright (called public domain in the USA), hence royalty-free for all purposes usage credit requested, or as marked.
Fourteenth-Century illuminated D with saint
This illuminated initial letter “D” is from the 1300s (14th century); it’s a red and blue calligraphic capital letter, with a picture of an unidentified female saint inside (as indicated by the gold halo). The saint holds a book in one hand and perhaps giant [...] [more...] [$]
These two daisies with gold-leaf middles and squiggly reddish-brown stems were decorations on an illuminated capital D from a choirbook from the 1300s. [more...] [$]
Medieval Decorative Initial Capital “D”
This mediaeval calligraphic initial “D” was originally decorated with filligree and gold and had a saint in the middle; the simplified version here is extracted to be more useful. [more...] [$]
Decorative initial letter A from fifteenth Century Nos. 4 and 5.
Decorative initial letter A from Fifteenth Century No. 4. [more...] [$]
Decorative uncial initial letter A from fifteenth Century Nos. 4 and 5.
Decorative initial letter A from Fifteenth Century No. 4. [more...] [$]
Decorative initial letter B from fifteenth Century Nos. 4 and 5.
Decorative initial letter B from Fifteenth Century No. 4. [more...] [$]
Decorative initial letter C from fifteenth Century Nos. 4 and 5.
Decorative initial letter C from Fifteenth Century No. 4. [more...] [$]
Decorative initial letter C from fifteenth Century Nos. 4 and 5.
Decorative initial letter C from Fifteenth Century No. 4. [more...] [$]
Decorative initial letter D from fifteenth Century Nos. 4 and 5.
Decorative initial letter D from Fifteenth Century No. 4. [more...] [$]
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