Diego de Astor

Letter "A" from the sign language book by Juan Pablo Bonet, 1620.

Diego de Astor, of Toledo, studied under Domenico Theotocopuli, and in 1606 engraved, under his superintendence, a 'St. Francis,' after Nic. de Vargas. Astor was engraver to the Mint of Segovia, and was also employed to engrave the royal seals. Of his plates we may notice the titlepage to Colmenares' 'Historia de Segovia' (Madrid, 1640), and that to Bonet's book on 'Speech for the Dumb,' one of the best works of the kind.

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This article incorporates text from the article "ASTOR, Diego de" in Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers by Michael Bryan, edited by Robert Edmund Graves and Sir Walter Armstrong, an 1886–1889 publication now in the public domain.

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