Figure 252
Ornaments from Muestras, etc., Imprenta Real, Madrid
From Internet Archive
1799
A…specimen-book of the Imprenta Real of Madrid, which was at last started and which seems to have absorbed the material cut by Gil for the Biblioteca Real.
…a large display of capital letters in roman and italic, shaded initials, Greek capital letters, and a repertoire of “flowers,” some of which we reproduce. A few are original, but a great many of these “flowers” were derived from Holland, France, and England, and others from various perfectly recognizable sources; but they are rendered in such a way as to be transmuted into very Spanish design.