Calligraphic Exercise in French (Cursive Script)

Anonymous

early 17th century · Pen and black and brown ink. · Drawings and Prints

Calligraphic exercize in French, presented in a double rectangular frame broken up in the upper left corner by the initial letter 'D'. The text runs for six lines and the ascenders and descenders are highlighted in gold. Part of an album with 26 examples of calligraphy and micrography, thought to have been produced in France or possibly Antwerp at the beginning of the seventeenth century.

Artist

Anonymous

Date

early 17th century

Medium

Pen and black and brown ink.

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

Purchase, Daniel Ergmann Gift, 2014