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Calligraphy

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Oscar Ogg papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 11995
Content Description Addition 4 to MSS 11995 contains newspaper & advertisement clippings, periodicals (The Christmas Reader and The Committee for italic Handwriting Newsletter, book reviews by Oscar Ogg, book cover mock-ups, ink & water color drawings, illustrations of calligraphy, and correspondence. Included are “typofile” and italic scripts handwriting. There is personal information including Squire Ogg’s grade school report on the...
Dates: 1936 - 1967

John Gottfried Watenbach calligraphic sample book

 Collection — Box BW 58: [Barcode: X032668462], Folder: 001
Identifier: MSS 16913
Content Description This collection contains an oblong folio book (197 X 328 mm) of calligraphic samples created by Johann Gottfried Watenbach, of whom we have no information. He was German or Austrian and possibly a student at the time of the creation of the work. The book contains sixty-five unnumbered leaves, written on rectos only, in pen and ink, pencil, watercolor, and gouache, containing a title leaf, with the author's name and colored figures. It is bound in 18th-century half blind-ruled calf and...
Dates: 1748 - 1772