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Will wrote with a bold round hand, that was extremely plain and caligraphic when he allowed him. self time for the work in hand, as he did with the commencement of his epistles, but which would become confused and altogether anti — caligraphic when he fell into a hurry towards the end of his performance as was his wont.

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After his return the influence of Venetian methods gradually waned, till we find in the masterly and refined portrait of _Wolgemut_ (1516) (see illustration); something of a return to the caligraphic method so noticeable in the _Oswolt Krel_.

Albert Durer T. Sturge Moore 1907

The vivid _Oswolt Krel_ at Munich shows the peculiarity of Dürer's caligraphic touch better than perhaps any other of his portraits.

Albert Durer T. Sturge Moore 1907

It has obvious affinities with the _Oswolt Krel_, but the caligraphic method is again modified in harmony with the character of the sitter's features.

Albert Durer T. Sturge Moore 1907

Despite its geometrical and caligraphic inaccuracy in detail, this hand is generally written with great regularity, that is, the characters, though incomplete, are always uniform in their irregularity.

The Detection of Forgery A Practical Handbook for the Use of Bankers, Solicitors, Magistrates' Clerks, and All Handling Suspected Documents Douglas Blackburn 1893

But the standard by which they gauged the genuineness of the productions was not caligraphic, but literary.

The Detection of Forgery A Practical Handbook for the Use of Bankers, Solicitors, Magistrates' Clerks, and All Handling Suspected Documents Douglas Blackburn 1893

Yet it is safe to say that there should be no writer so safe from fraudulent imitation, for there is a peculiar distinctiveness about his caligraphic productions that once seen and noted should never be forgotten.

The Detection of Forgery A Practical Handbook for the Use of Bankers, Solicitors, Magistrates' Clerks, and All Handling Suspected Documents Douglas Blackburn 1893

On entering, he noticed that next to the door there was a high desk, so cunningly constructed both as regards height and inclination that all the discomforts of writing were removed; and the brightness of the silver inkpot, the arrangement of the numerous pens and the order-book on the desk, all was so perfect that the fingers of the lettered and unlettered itched alike with desire of the caligraphic art.

Modern Painting 1892

Madame Wesendonck has given me a gold pen of indestructible power, which has once more turned me into a caligraphic pedant.

Correspondence of Wagner and Liszt Tr 1888

Now for a fair copy, and in a hand, mind you, that gave no hint of his care for caligraphic seemliness: bold, forthright.

Born in Exile George Gissing 1880