Classic illuminated letter M from a vintage book. Those fancy letters that monks once drew in Bibles and we now call drop caps were once called illuminated letters. This fancy letter M image has a number of different design elements all of which are dominated by the solid and dark M. Is it just me, or does the flower-like medallion and the two spirals in the middle make it look like the letter M has a mustache?
So many wonderful illustrations were included in the large work Hill’s Album of Biography and Art from 1882 by Thomas E. Hill. This is but one of them.
This image is copyright free and in the public domain anywhere that extends copyrights 70 years after death or at least 120 years after publication when the original illustrator is unknown.
