1800s Lettering Sketchbook, image 14
This flourished fraktur capital letter M was pasted into a sketchbook of romantic and medial lettering (traces, copies?) that some wonderful British gentlemen put together during the nineteenth century. Showed to us in the fantastic Monday afternoon sessions with Michael Twyman at the University of Reading.
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Marina Chaccur, Ralf_H., elisharene, nikofernandez, and 240 other people added this photo to their favorites.
mathewh (67 months ago | reply)
lovely!
elisharene (67 months ago | reply)
That is hot.
TypeOff (67 months ago | reply)
I wish now that one of my initials was the letter M ;-)
JRG Cisterna (66 months ago | reply)
wow !
IvoIvanov (62 months ago | reply)
Amazing!
Rob Boudon (62 months ago | reply)
What letter is that supposed to be? All of them?
junk.paste (62 months ago | reply)
Mr. Boudon gotta point. Adroitness duly noted: what the hell does that say?
TypeOff (62 months ago | reply)
@Rob Boudon
@junk.paste
It is just one capital letter M ;-)
shch_andrey (62 months ago | reply)
very good type!)
TypeOff (62 months ago | reply)
This isn't type at all! It is a drawing, probably of something that was originally calligraphic or from a printmaking process. So it is just a letter, not type or even an image of type. Sorry :(
jasssim (62 months ago | reply)
very nice.....
honeypieLiving (60 months ago | reply)
love this.. so much
honeypieLiving (60 months ago | reply)
"We photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing,
and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth
can make them come back again.
We cannot develop and print a memory."
Henri Cartier-Bresson
www.flickr.com/photos/honeypielivingetc/25877 02965/
-Thank You, all of You in this tribute to the fleeting moments.
You are all newfound favourites, - & I'm so glad for the moment;
which lead me to You.
Love / hannah
maccu (58 months ago | reply)
Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Illustrators SketchBook Etc...., and we'd love to have this added to the group!
TypeOff (58 months ago | reply)
Maccu, I don't think I should add this to your group! It isn't a page from my own sketchbook, or even from any illustrator's sketchbook, really… like I write above, I photographed this from a 19th century scrapbook.
AnnaNakami (56 months ago | reply)
no comments =x PERFECT =D
Muiz_ (55 months ago | reply)
say wah!
vidalia_11 (50 months ago | reply)
Mesmerizing!
dreams & wind (48 months ago | reply)
nice very nice.. :)
SToppin (44 months ago | reply)
Incredible! Sigh. How romantic, truly a lost art.
geoloch (32 months ago | reply)
I love this. It is so simple in concept but intricate in execution that it feels almost natural to me.
/maxm (31 months ago | reply)
what nib(s) were you using?
TypeOff (30 months ago | reply)
I wasn't using a nib… I just took the photo. The piece is well over 100-years-old.
/maxm (30 months ago | reply)
haha i totally assumed you could pull that off.
Biscuit_Lover (29 months ago | reply)
beautiful.
lozzic (21 months ago | reply)
Hello!
This is one of the best examples of calligraphic flourishing I have seen.
I am the admin for a budding group called 'Western Calligraphy and Lettering in the Early Modern Styles': www.flickr.com/groups/1798506@N22/
I would be honoured if you could add this image to our pool.
Thank you very much.
This photo was invited and added to the Early Modern & 19th Century Style Calligraphy and Lettering group.
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StevieMagazine (17 months ago | reply)
That's extraordinary!