This picture was an assignment from my art teacher. Everyone in my class had to draw their own Ampersand. An ampersand is the typographic symbol used to designate the word and (&) it is a combination of the letters et which in Latin means and. There are many theories about how the ampersand was invented. The most common belief is that it was developed by a monk who used the & symbol as short hand while he was making copies of literature.
