British Museum Gothic
Artist
F. G. Delamotte
1814–1862. Engraver, alphabet compiler. Born in England.
Freeman Gage Delamotte collected and engraved alphabets for draughtsmen, masons, painters and lithographers. His books were reprinted through the second half of the nineteenth century.
The plates show full A to Z sets in one alphabet. That is rare on posters, and it is why the books matter here as sources, not as decoration samples.
- F. G. Delamotte
- 1906 plate (alphabet after 1480)
- Belle Époque
- United Kingdom
- Blackletter, Display
- Published in The Signist’s Book of Modern Alphabets
- Internet Archive / Flickr Commons plate
- Signist’s Book plate, 1480 British Museum
- Wikimedia Commons
- Public domain
Fonts
Museum Gothic
Letters from the poster
Full typeface
Lettering style
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History
Delamotte’s alphabet books were published for craftsmen who needed complete letter sets. This plate reprints a Gothic alphabet after a British Museum model dated 1480.
Unlike a poster, the plate gives almost the whole alphabet at once. J, V and W are missing, as in many medieval sets, and have to be finished to match the plate.
The plate scan comes from a 1906 edition of The Signist’s Book of Modern Alphabets, published with no known restrictions.
Source and rights
F. G. Delamotte died in 1862. His work entered the public domain long ago. The plate scan is published with no known restrictions.
Scan from Wikimedia Commons, catalogue record Signist’s Book plate, 1480 British Museum. Brand names on the poster belong to their owners and are never used as font names.
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