1627
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
New ABC Booklet: D is a 1627 by Lucas Kilian, a Baroque work, held at Cleveland Museum of Art.
This drawing shows a man in old-fashioned clothes, standing on a small platform. He’s holding a tall staff and a hat, with a bucket beside him. The background is packed with swirling, decorative lines that look like vines and flowers, framing him like a stage. The man seems to be part of an alphabet book—this is the letter *D*. The fancy patterns around him might hint at how letters were taught with pictures back then. Next, check out The Cleveland Museum of Art to see more prints like this.
Lucas Kilian (Lucas Kilianus Augustanus; 1579–1637) was a German engraver and etcher from the Kilian family of engravers in Augsburg.
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