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The Story of a Hunter

Production of Artwork · 1908 · 5 pictures

This is a 1908 illuminated manuscript-style book with hand-lettered calligraphic text, produced by an artist-scribe working in the decorative tradition, held by the J. Paul Getty Museum. The pictures are small framed paintings in soft muted watercolour and gold, set alongside text blocks, showing a dying man receiving a feather, a snow-white bird caught in a net, a boy sitting in misty dusk, and a green winged bird in a flowering garden. A designer might borrow the restrained palette, the gilt-edged framing, and the way calligraphy and figurative vignettes share a page.

The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles · J. Paul Getty Museum · No known copyright restrictions · More from this library