The British Museum’s online collection of a series of 26 beautiful landscape scenes shaped as letters of the alphabet; rebound in a 20th-century binding.
Letter A: upper part composed of three figures around a fire at the edge of a slope to small pond, forming the lower part of the letter; outline by trees.
Letter B: a vista on level country, outlined by trees and branches and the edge of a rise with two figures as the bottom part of the letter.
Letter C: a castle on cliffs on the left; waves of the sea shaping the lower curve, clouds the upper one.
Letter D: a semi-circular landscape scene with mountains in right distance; a crag with trees shaping the left outline of the letter.
Letter E: a ruinous gate, the right part of its arch broken, a tree on the left stretching to the right and two men standing on the right pointing at the ruin.
Letter F: a tree trunk and two branches stretching to the right at the top and in the middle.
See the rest of the collection at The British Museum online archive.
2 Responses to Typography: The Landscape Alphabet
aplaceforthoughts
February 24th, 2014 at 6:34 pm
These are beautiful! Love the E!
Rose
March 13th, 2014 at 2:12 pm
Hello!! How are you? It’s been a long while. Thanks for stopping by!