calligraphern.

1662 J. Evelyn Sculptura iv. 91 The famous Gravers of Letters and Calligraphers, such as are Le Gagneur, Lucas Materot, Frisius [etc.].

1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. at Calligraphy Calligraphy is also used to denote the calligrapher's work, in transcribing fair and at large.

1789 Analyt. Rev. Nov. 382 It [sc. the codex] has books I.–V. probably written by Strategus, the calligrapher, and copied from the same MS. as the foregoing, but more carefully.

1837 H. Hallam Introd. Lit. Europe I. ii. 188 Against Thomas à Kempis it is urged, that he was a professed calligrapher.

1864 R. Chambers Bk. of Days II. 309/2 A caligrapher, a writer and engraver of ‘letters, knots, and flourishes’.

1915 Amer. Art News 3 Apr. 6/3 There is an office of the Virgin Mary executed by Nicolas Jarry, calligrapher of Louis XIV.

1963 E. H. Schafer Golden Peaches of Samarkand viii. 135 An extravagant admirer of the calligrapher Wang Hsi-chih.

2011 K. Martin Against Storm xiii. 163 Faye had hired a calligrapher to make the delicate signs below each picture.

1752 G. Ballard Mem. Several Ladies 36 Having an excellent natural genius, she became exquisitely skilful in all kinds of needle-work; was a curious calligrapher; very knowing in arithmetic.

1823 I. D'Israeli Curiosities of Lit. 2nd Ser. II. 212 Queen Elizabeth..was indeed a most elegant caligrapher.

a1873 E. Bulwer-Lytton in Ld. Lytton Life & Lett. Lytton (1883) I. ii. iii. 128 The worst caligrapher and most blundering arithmetician.

1964 Shakespeare Q. 15 141 For the mere calligrapher, the cultivation of ‘the sweet Roman hand’ in all its elegance.

1992 Austral. Financial Rev. (Nexis) 1 June 32 With perseverance this was ironed out within two weeks, by which stage even the worst calligrapher's script was recognised [by the computer].