Johann Georg von Schwandner

Calligrapher who lived in the 18th century.

Author of Calligraphia Latina (1755), reprinted by Dover in 1958. This book has twelve full alphabets, over 300 initials and many exquisite borders and frames.

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This letter H is from Dissertatio epistolaris de calligraphiae nominclatione (Vienna, 1756).

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