Catalogue illustré
This is an 1879 Paris exhibition catalogue of the Société des artistes français Salon, published by L. Baschet and aimed at visitors to the show and collectors of French art. Its pictures are rotated black-and-white reproductions of paintings and prints: a stag and hounds in a forest, a cloaked figure walking across snowy ground, a framed group scene of figures on a hillside, and a tree-lined landscape. A designer might take from them the loose, hatched line work of 19th-century French reproductive printing and its tonal landscape compositions.
