Q and U

Ever since I read the brilliant introduction to Jeffrey Masten's "Queer Philologies: Sex, Language and Affect in Shakespeare's Time," which makes a delightfully rigorous argument for the historical queerness of the letter Q, I knew I wanted to make a print about it. The passage on this print, which I discovered through Masten's work, comes from "Champ Fleury," a late 15th century lettering manual by Geoffrey Tory: the illustration at the top is a linoleum-block reproduction of diagrams appearing in that volume.

7x10".