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Calligraphy. Visual works.

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Works composed primarily of beautiful, elegant letters or flourishes that are typically created by hand with a pen, either in unjoined characters or in cursive writing. May also refer to similar works created by computer or another means.

Found in 61 Collections and/or Records:

`Recherches sur l`origine des théatres, sur l`invention de l’imprimerie, leurs perfections and accroissement. Par Mr Chardin de la Chardiniere. A Paris, 1779`.

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.5.2.13
Scope and Contents

The manuscript appears to be the introduction to a bookseller`s catalogue (not, however, that of Charles Chardin, ‘Catalogue des livres rares et singuliers du cabinet de M. Filhal’, Paris, 1779).

A calligraphic copy, with the colophon: `Exaravit Calamo Franciscus Florentius Fyot. Anno Domini MDCCLXXIX.`

Dates: 1779.

Specimens of copperplate handwriting written out for his parents by William Prichard.

 Item
Identifier: MS.8929
Scope and Contents

A group of samples of handwriting was submitted half-yearly, at Christmas and mid-summer, when the boy was at Watford Academy, and subsequently (1828 onwards) at Prospect House Academy, Bushey. The texts consist of religious and educational maxims, and poems.

Dates: 1826-1831, 1833.

Three examples of miniature handwriting by James McKay, with related correspondence.

 File
Identifier: Acc.12866
Scope and Contents

Includes an album of sketches and postcards from the First World War.

Dates: circa 1914-1946.