Calligraphic drawing with ornamented initial G and seven lines of text in French: Garde toy ... At the bottom a lower case alphabet in the corresponding hand. The text is framed by scrollwork. On the right side a herme or border column in scrollwork. The drawing is part of an album, Design of a writing sample: Garde toy (...) Spieghel der schrijfkonste (series title), Jan van de Velde (I), (mentioned on object), Rotterdam, 1605, paper, pen, h 206 mm × w 315 mm

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License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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