Antike Bildwerke in Oberitalien
A German catalogue of ancient sculpture from northern Italy, compiled by Hans Dütschke and published in Leipzig by W. Engelmann in 1874, aimed at scholars of Roman and Greek art. The three pictures are line drawings of inscribed Roman funerary tablets, with carved Latin capitals set in spaced, ruled lines and bracketing curves marking the text blocks. A designer might take from them the rhythm of widely tracked classical capitals and the clean hand-drawn linework of an archaeological record.
