Anne-Louis Girodet: Portrait of Firmin Didot
One of Girodet's last works (he died the following year) was this delightful drawing of his friend Firmin Didot, a prominent typographer who invented the word "stereotype," which in its original sense didn't refer to making broad-brush judgments about a group of people but rather to how pages are set up for printing.
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