I guess, in England itself maybe looking for " English Roundhand" is also a good idea … on the other hand Ken Fraser wrote somewhere that his clients wouldn't understand the term "Roundhand", so it would be interesting to know how you call it usually in UK, somebody (Ken?) could clear this up
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I checked on Paul Antonio's site (I'd so like to go to a workshop – I'd fly to London for this – but that's an aside …), and he calls it "Copperplate" on his site … but maybe because he also works for international clients?
So here's a list of how's it called in different European countries, as far as I know:
France: "Anglaise"
Spain: "Inglesa"
Germany: "Englische Schreibschrift" or "Anglaise", "Copperplate" starts to be used
Anyone knows more?
@chantellehoffmann That's really – how smug is that?? I have heard though similar things from a calligrapher here in Germany. She learnt all the most important historical hands as part of her tuition as a letterer in the 80s in the GDR, and she told me that her teachers told her often that calligraphy should NOT be "pleasing", meaning not flourished, simple, up to the purpose and not decorative. So I am not sure if that is the same attitude but something a bit similar at least. I think that has a lot to do with the work of Edward Johnston whose books were translated to German very early and have a huge influence on how calligraphy is seen here today. He regarded pointed pen and excessive flourishing more or less as a deviation from the perfection of the broad pen medieval and rennaissance book calligraphy … in all German calligraphy books I have, that go a bit in history, they point out that the 19th century was a time of decadence and decline in terms of handwriting and calligraphy, and they blame this duly to the rise of the pointed steel nib (I think what was part of a romantic idealisation of the pre-industrial world, part of a bigger artistic / historical movement … I am not sure of this, it's just my impression, I just soak up bits and pieces of informations I find on my way
) … it's really strange considering that in the US this era is regarded as the Golden Age of Penmanship!!
Sorry for the meandering post!!