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Words by Michel Wlassikoff
Nouvelle collection de lettres
This album of fifty plates, featuring ornate and fanciful letters, marked the end of the Romantic era in typography, and paved the way for the decorative forms that would inspire Art Nouveau.
This album of fifty plates, featuring ornate and fanciful letters, marked the end of the Romantic era in typography, and paved the way for the decorative forms that would inspire Art Nouveau.
The album of fifty plates proposed by Antonin Caulo, in 1856, marks the end of the romantic era. The fancy letters which have especially flourished in the register of lithography, ornate letters, tangled, twisted, etc., are always represented as well as the alphabets of characters, animals and devilry, but the fashion will disappear quite quickly in the following decades even if the decorative forms remain alive and will inspire Art Nouveau.
Document : Nouvelle collection de lettres de différents genres à l’usage de M.M. les peintres, graveurs, composés et gravés par A. Caulo. A Paris chez Caudrilier éditeur 1856.
Large in-8. A title leaf and fifty numbered plates.
