Catalogo illustrado da Exposição retrospectiva de arte ornamental portugueza e hespanhola celebrada em Lisboa em 1882
An 1882 illustrated catalogue published by the Imprensa Nacional in Lisbon, documenting a retrospective exhibition of Portuguese and Spanish ornamental art held that year for a public interested in historic decorative objects. The four plates are numbered engravings in a plain black-and-white line style: a goblet with medallion panels, a carved panel of scrolling foliage, a carved book-cover or casket with figures, and an ornate processional cross on a pedestal. A designer could take from them the dense, symmetrical scroll-and-medallion ornament of Iberian Renaissance metalwork and carving, useful for borders, frames, and period motifs.
