Calligraphy

Martha L. Carothers is a book artist and professor of Art and Design at the University of Delaware specializing in graphic design and book arts. The Martha L. Carothers student artists’ books collection comprises over 500 artists’ books created by students of Martha Carothers’ ART 309 course at the University of Delaware from 1983 to 2016. The collection documents thirty-four years of student projects in the application of book-arts concepts and techniques.

An artifact of the the early twentieth century calligraphy revival, this 114 page vellum-bound manuscript lettering book has ink-drawn and watercolor original artwork, painted copies, and book or newspaper clippings of English letters glued onto its pages.

This Spanish calligraphy manuscript is a notebook of penmanship exercises created by a 13-year-old girl (Juanita?) in the mid-nineteenth century.