Bulletin
A bulletin issued in 1886 in Rouen by the Amis des monuments rouennais, a society of local antiquarians, and printed by Lecerf fils; its architectural plates record Rouen buildings and decorative details for a regional audience. The pictures include a carved capital signed at Saint-Germer, a drawn window with curtains and carved surround, and photographs of a tower and an old shop front, most of them printed rotated on the page. A designer could take from them the stone foliage of the capital and the layered timber-framed facades as period ornament and street-scene reference.
