Museum Plantin-Moretus Online Catalogue

Object number
MPM.HB.13117
Title
- Ornamental initial G, lettre cadeau (60 mm)
- Latin alphabet, lettre cadeau, grotesque decoration (60 mm)
Creator
Geoffroy Ballain (designer), Antoni van Leest (woodcutter (printmaker))
Production date
voor 1568
Object name
woodblock (printing matrix)
Material
wood (plant material)
Technique
woodcut (printing process)
Dimensions
Acquisition date
1876-04-20
Acquisition method
purchase - Moretus, Edward
Documentation
- Grotesken : een fascinerende fantasiewereld = Grotesques : fantasy portrayed, 2019, pg.98
Printed in
- ABC, oft Exemplen om de kinderen bequamelick te leeren schryven, 1568, fol. C1 recto
Literature
- Max Rooses, Index characterum architypographiae Plantinianae = Proeven der lettersoorten gebruikt in de Plantijnsche drukkerij = Specimen des caractères employés dans l'imprimerie plantinienne, 1905, II, nr. 4 [G]
- Stephen Harvard, Ornamental initials: the woodcut initials of Christopher Plantin: a complete catalogue, 1974, nr. 37 [G]
- Kristof Selleslach, TORAD: Typografische Ornamenten Repertorium van Antwerpse Drukkers 1541-1600 [database], 2014-, IN00813 (in S0042)