#letterv — Public Fediverse posts

https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Subert-Cechy-Vol2/pages/169-initial-letter-v-child-rescue/

I’m not 100% sure what’s happening here; is the youth stealing the infant from the bird’s nest? Or rescuing her? What do you think?

The actual full-sized scan is much higher quality than this image suggests, scanned at 2400dpi 16bpp greyscale, 4,656x14,193 pixels.

Artist: Antonín Josef Lewý. Book dated 1884.

#vintageArt #fobo #Gimp_3 #decoratedInitial #letterV #dropCaps #eagles #children #rescue

https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Subert-Cechy-Vol2/pages/131-initial-letter-v-with-mermaid/

A decorated letter V for a dropped capital, formally an inhabited initial, from an 1884 book about Vltava in Bohemia (Czechia). The V has a mermaid in it, & fishes & an eel swim about her. She’s naked (do mermaids wear clothes?).

Decorated initials are used in print at the start of a chapter, or at the start of a section without a title so you can find it easily.

#fantasyArt #fantasy #mermaid #initial #letterV #typography #initialLetter #fromOldBooks #woman