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University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept.

John Gottfried Watenbach calligraphic sample book

0.04 Cubic Feet One folder (legal-sized)

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 marbled paper over boards, plain pastedown endpapers. There is a watermark of a key within a crowned shield flanked by the letters H.B.

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John Gottfried Watenbach calligraphic sample book 0.04 Cubic Feet One folder (legal-sized)

Musinsky Rare Books

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 marbled paper over boards, plain pastedown endpapers. There is a watermark of a key within a crowned shield flanked by the letters H.B.

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