https://www.fromoldbooks.org/CirclingTheYear-1870/pages/136v-christmas-initial-letter-c/

This decorative initial was used as a drop cap (dropped capital) for the word Christmas starting an 1870 article entitled “Christmas with the Poets”.

Drop caps bring attention to the start of a new section or chapter, and help people find their way by flipping through the pages of a printed book.

Print jargon: this initial is foliated and vignetted

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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.

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