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El nuevo olimpo : representacion real, y festiva mascara que a los felicissimos años de la Reyna Nuestra Señora celebraron, la atencion amante del Rey Nuestro Señor, y el obsequio, y cariño de la Serenissima Señora Infante, damas, y meninas del Real Palacio

Bocángel, Gabriel, 1603-1658 · 1649 · Madrid : Diaz de la Carrera · 4 pictures

A 1649 Madrid court masque by Gabriel Bocángel, printed by Díaz de la Carrera for the royal household, celebrating the Queen's birthday under King Philip IV. Three of the four pictures are small woodcut typographic ornaments, decorated initials built from scrolls, foliage, birds and bands, while the fourth is a later blue octagonal bookseller's stamp from V. Suárez in Madrid that should be ignored. The woodcut initials offer a dense, hand-cut repertoire of frame and capital-letter ornament a designer could adapt for historical headers and drop caps.

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