Calligraphic Menagerie Boxed Notecards

$25.00 at de Young Museum.

Sourced from Letterform Archive’s collection of historic writing manuals―books in which Europe’s leading scribes showed off their talents―this set of 20 unique notecards with accompanying envelopes delightfully displays hand-drawn animals made with ink and pen. Dogs, cats, bears, elephants, lions, dragonflies, peacocks, swans and more are reproduced in bright hues on an array of colorful backgrounds. These technically masterful and playfully expressive artworks by famed calligraphers such as Jan van de Velde…