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Samuel Bottschild
Samuel Bottschild (1641-1706) was painter to the court of Johann Georg IV, Elector of Saxony, and from 1699 inspector of the Electoral art collection. He was based in Dresden, Germany. He conceived a complete alphabet of roman capitals with figures mostly from Greek mythology. The series was engraved by Moritz Bodenehr (1665-1749) in Dresden. Each letter is engraved over the image of a figure from classical (mostly Greek) mythology whose (sometimes Roman) name begins with that letter. The letters do not directly copy any known model, but they come close to those in Geofroy Tory's 1529 Champ Fleury, with the straight strokes, the bracketing of the serifs and some curved strokes possibly executed with a ruler and compass. |
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