Il Cromvele : tragedia
Il Cromvele is a 1673 Italian tragedy by Girolamo Graziani, printed in Bologna by the Manolessi press and dealing with Oliver Cromwell. The pictures here are small woodcut ornaments, a fruit basket tailpiece and a stage-set engraving of a palace hall with arches, columns and a lattice-fronted niche. A designer might take from them the decorative borders of seventeenth-century Italian printing and the perspective structure of baroque theatre sets.
