Alphabeto Aboim (Calligraphy)

Alphabeto Aboim (Calligraphy)
GODINHO, Consuelo Nunes.- Alphabeto Aboim / composto, desenhado e gravado pela calligrapha Consuelo Godinho.- S.l.: s.n., s.d. [ca. 1900].- 26 estampas, 1 fotografia; 23x30 cm.- E.
Only work by the author (19th/20th century), daughter of the calligrapher Domingos Nunes Godinho (* 1844), the son of Manuel Nunes Godinho (* 1816), calligraphy teacher, granted with the title of Calligrapher of the Royal House, the most distinguished elements of a true breed of artists of the drawn letter, that included six elements of three generations of the same family. Entirely chromolithographed edition, consisting of a title page at the centre of which a photograph of the author was pasted and 25 leaves with allegorical, historically and virtually calligraphic letters on different mosaic backgrounds. A very faded offer inscription on the flyleaf.