Title Page to the Moderne World of Words, or A Universal English Dictionary
1850
ink
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
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1850
ink
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Title Page to the Moderne World of Words, or A Universal English Dictionary is a 1850 ink by Unknown 19th Century, a Romanticism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
This engraving shows a title page for a dictionary. At the top, two small town scenes are labeled "Cambridge" and "Oxford." In the center, a globe sits under the title *The Moderne World of Words*. Around it, eight portraits of men in old-fashioned clothes are arranged in a circle, each with a name like Spenser, Bacon, or Chaucer. The globe has the words *Novus Orbis* (new world) and *Verborum* (of words) on it. The text says it was printed in 1696, but this page is actually a later copy. The portraits look like scholars or writers from long ago. Want to see how this kind of print was made? Look up engraving.
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