LENTEN VEIL of FREIBURG

LENTEN VEIL of MILLSTAETT

ILLUSTRATION REPORT ~ FEBRUARY 2010

Limited-Edition Art Prints

St. Columba of Iona
Image size: 8 1/2" x 11 1/9"
Paper size: 9" x 12"
Limited edition (1-6) giclee art print
$120 + shipping

I have issued a print of my drawing of St. Columba. This drawing was made with colored inks and gouaches, in the style of early mediaeval illuminated manuscripts from Northumbria and Ireland. A detailed explanation of its imagery can be read here. The edition is limited to only six prints, one of which has already been sold.


Crucifixion
Image size: 8" x 11"
Paper size: 9" x 12"
Limited edition (1-100) giclee art print
$120 + shipping

I consider this Crucifixion drawing my finest work to date. A detailed explanation of its imagery can be read here.


Tree of Life and Death
Image size: 5 1/4" x 7"
Paper size: 8" x 10"
Limited edition (1-50) giclee art print
$96 + shipping

This drawing of the Tree of Life and Death is based on an illumination in a 15th century Missal owned by Archbishop Bernhard von Rohr of Salzburg.

Recently Completed Custom Bookplates:

See this page for more custom bookplates.

Christmas Cards

Tree of Jesse
Card size: 5" x 7"
Blank inside
$1 per card + shipping
Envelopes included
Minimum order of 10


Annunciation to the Shepherds
Card size: 4" x 5"
Blank inside
$1 per card + shipping
Envelopes included
Minimum order of 10

See this page for more information.

Printed Universal Bookplates

Olives


Critters


Maze

Size of printed bookplates: 3" x 4"
Digital prints on white acid-free paper
50 cents each + shipping
Minimum order of 20

Luthiers' Labels

A Luthiers' Label is a small print pasted inside a stringed instrument to identify its maker. Traditionally, a luthier would demonstrate his dexterity by pasting the label into the instrument after it was built - in the case of a violin, through the f holes.





I designed this label in 2008. I would like to design more, and ask that anyone who knows an instrument-maker who may be interested in custom labels to inform him of my work.

Visit my main web site to see more of my artwork and e-mail me (danmitsui [at] hotmail [dot] com) if you are interested in buying or commissioning anything.

LENTEN VEIL of BALDRAMSDORF

ASH WEDNESDAY

SHROVETIDE BATTLE ~ PETER BRUEGEL

TRADITIONAL SHROVETIDE SPORTS

A Pictorial Record of Bristol's History:

1660: Bristol apprentices revolt, demanding a free Parliament and the restoration of the Monarchy. On 5 March 1660, the bellman of Bristol makes the usual Puritan proclamation banning cock-throwing and dog-tossing. The rowdy apprentices attack him and the next day (Shrove Tuesday), squail a goose and toss cats and dogs into the air outside the Mayor’s Mansion House. To squail a goose is to throw sticks, weighted with lead at one end, at it. The object is to maim the bird without killing it.The authorities are able to quickly bring the apprentices under control and halt all tossing and squailing.

WASHINGTON WINDOW at SELBY ABBEY



Selby Abbey:

The Washington Window, containing the Heraldic arms of the Washington family, is to be found in the south clerestory window of the choir and is the original fourteenth century glass. When Glover the Herald visited Selby in 1584-5 he described the escutcheon as argent, two bars and in chief three mullets pierced, gules.

The shield is white with two red bars across and three red mullets (spur-rowels) in chief each with a hole in the centre. This piercing is necessary to the true representation of the Washington mullets. At Great Brington in Northamptonshire, where the first President's ancestors formerly dwelt, the Arms are also represented with pierced mullets, the colours being identical with Selby though the shield is much smaller.

In 1891 Harpers magazine showed two seals and a book-plate used by Washington which are virtually exact replicas of the Wessington family coat of arms.

The Washington shield at Selby probably represents some kind of benefaction made to the Abbey to commemorate John Wessington, Prior of Durham (1416-1446), the most distinguished collateral ancestor of George Washington. John Wessington made important additions to Hemmingborough church which was a collegiate under Durham. Beneath the battlement of the tower at Hemmingborough is a succession of washing tuns (tubs) - a rebus of the prior's name.

MARY, JUDITH, JAHEL and TOMYRIS



The Blessed Virgin Mary defeating the Devil, using the instruments of the Passion as her weapons, with Biblical and historical prefigurements. From a manuscript by Jean Miélot of the Speculum Humanae Salvationis.

ST. VALENTINE



His life, according to James of Voragine.