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 4 Collections and/or Records:
O. Allery calligraphic Lord's Prayer
Collection — Box BW 57: [Barcode: X032668454], Folder: 001
Identifier: MSS 16864
Content Description
This collection contains the Lord's Prayer written in calligraphic script in concentric circles with some letters highlighted in gilt. At the end of the prayer, the name O. Allery is identified as the "scribe." It is mounted in a brown matte with a circular cutout at its center, displaying the prayer. The verso has O. Allery and the date '1990' inscribed and a gold address label placing O. Allery in Wells, Somerset, England.
Dates:
1990
Hans Rudolf Gujer calligraphy notebook ViU-2024-0092 (Addition 53), 1750
File — Box 11: [Barcode: X032669466], Folder: 8
Scope and Contents
Addition 53 of MSS 16758, The University of Virginia Collection on the History of Childhood, Parenting, and Family Building contains one calligraphy manuscript of Hans Rudolf Gujer from Wermatswil, Switzerland. The book contains thirty-seven leaves in landscape format, in various colored inks and watercolor, with some use of gouache. It also includes seven large original drawings; one is in pen-and-ink, and six are ink and watercolor; three pages of alphabets; most other pages...
Dates:
1750
St. Helen's School calligraphic manuscript of the Benedicte Omnia Opera Northwood, London, (Addition 54) 2024-0093, 1960
File — Box 11: [Barcode: X032669466], Folder: 9
Scope and Contents
This addition to MSS 16758, The University of Virginia Collection on the History of Childhood, Parenting, and Family Building, contains an original calligraphic manuscript of thirty variously colored linocuts, each by a different girl from a class at St. Helen's Norwood, London. Each linocut has the student's name below in ink. The contents are handwritten verses of Benedicte Omnia Opera. The title page notes, "Lettered, illustrated and bound by all the members of IVA." The endpapers are...
Dates:
1960
Benjamin Owen Tyler calligraphic manuscript and Fenno family papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 16694
Content Description
Memorial of Captain John Fenno Mansfield (1788-1812) in this Eulogium in calligraphy by Benjamin Owen Tyler. At Westpoint Tyler designed and accomplished this memorial dated November 20, 1816.Calligraphically and stylistically, the broadside bears all of the hallmarks of Tyler's penmanship and design such as floating cherubic heads. The Eulogium's most telling couplet states: "Science and Taste, united, would have shed/ A living luster round his honored head."Mansfield commanded...
Dates:
1770, 1816