La Hecvba; tragedia

Dolce, Lodovico, 1508-1568, Euripides. Hecuba · 1543 · In Venetia, Appresso Gabriel Gioli di Ferrarij · 6 pictures

A 1543 Venetian printed edition of Lodovico Dolce's Italian version of Euripides' tragedy Hecuba, published by Gabriel Giolito di Ferrari. The pictures are small woodcut historiated initials and a printer's device, with a dark, hatched line style. A designer could take from them the compact framed letter shapes and the way figures and animals fill a letter form.

Hecuba (Legendary character)

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