Title Page to The New World of Words or A General English Dictionary
1678
ink
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
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1678
ink
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Title Page to The New World of Words or A General English Dictionary is a 1678 ink by Unknown 19th Century, a Baroque work, held at National Gallery of Art.
This print shows a book title page for a 1678 dictionary. At the top, two cities—Cambridge and Oxford—are drawn. Below, eight men in old-fashioned clothes stand in pairs. In the middle, a globe sits under a banner with fancy writing. The globe has Latin words for "new world" and "word." The men look like scholars. This was a big deal for English words back then. Want to see how this print was made? Look up engraving.
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