Artes e letras
Artes e letras is a Portuguese art-and-literature volume published in Lisbon in 1872 by Rolland & Semiond, with text by Francisco Rangel de Lima and illustrations meant for a general reading public. The pictures are black-and-white line engravings of genre scenes: a rotated interior with figures at a table, a studio still life with an easel and a jar, a woman with a basket inside an ornamental oval frame, and a seated street musician with a guitar. A designer might borrow their dense hatching, decorative oval framing and vine-and-scroll border for period-style graphics.
