Le essequie celebratesi nella chiesa delle MM. RR. Madri di S. Orsola di Mantoua : d'ordine della serenissima signora arciduchessa Isabella Clara d' Austria, duchessa di Mantoua, Monferrato, &c., per la morte dell' imperatrice augustissima Claudia Felice lei nipote
A 1676 Italian funeral description printed in Mantua by the Ossana ducal printers for Archduchess Isabella Clara of Austria, commemorating Empress Claudia Felicitas, consort of Leopold I. The pictures are four small decorative woodcut initials, letters D, E, C and D, filled with foliage, scrollwork, and small figures inside black frames. A designer could draw on their compact, rough-cut framing and the way figures sit within capital letterforms.
















