Initial Letter F · Y90s Database of Ornament

Title

Initial Letter F

Subject

Inhabited Initial Letter
Foliated Grotesque

Description

Initial letter F is capitalized. The letter is framed within a double-lined square. The letter is white on a black background, the background is studded with white dots. The letter Is composed of one vertical line on the left side and two horizontal lines extending to the right from it. The vertical line is thicker and flares out at the bottom, it flares out at the top as well but only on the left side. The first horizontal line extends out from the top of the letter, it hooks downwards at its right end. It is the thinner than the vertical line. The other horizontal line is halfway down the letter. It is the same thickness as the first horizontal line, and it flares out in both directions vertically. There are leaves, flowers, and vines behind the initial letter and spread out throughout the innermost box of the square. A grotesque head, emerging from a foliated arabesque, faces right in profile in the upper quadrant. This ornament, dating back to classical times, is known as a “foliated grotesque.”

Source

Savoy Volumes at Yellow Nineties 2.0

Publisher

Leonard Smithers

Date

Volume Two: April 1896
Volume Five: September 1896
Volume Eight: December 1896

Rights

Public Domain
Toronto Metropolitan University Library Archives & Special Collections

Relation

Savoy Digital Edition, edited by Christopher Keep and Lorraine Janzen Kooistra, Yellow Nineties 2.0, Toronto Metropolitan University Centre for Digital Humanities, 2019.