Les heros de la ligue
Les heros de la ligue is a 1691 satirical collection of engraved caricature portraits, published in Paris or Holland under a Louis le Grand sign, and held by the Newberry Library. The single picture is a circular profile engraving of an old man with a bald, wrinkled head, a clerical collar and a cross on a rosary, set on a plain page under a printed caption and verse. A designer might take its tight oval vignette, lettered label and stark cross-hatched shading as a model for period satire.
