A catalogue of a most superb and distinguished collection of Italian, French, Flemish, and Dutch pictures : a selection formed with peculiar taste and judgment by John Trumbull, Esq. during his late residence in Paris, from some of the most celebrated cabinets in France : consisting of the undoubted works of the following great masters, in the highest state of preservation : Raphael, Titian, Pordenone, Bassan, Spagnoletto, Guercino, Guido, Salvator Rosa, Murillo, Poussin, Rubens, V. Dyck, Teniers, Berghem, Wouvermans, Ger. Douw, Ch. V. Werff, Rembrandt, Vernet
A London auction catalogue of 1797 issued by the auctioneer James Christie for the sale of Italian, French, Flemish and Dutch paintings assembled by the American painter John Trumbull while he lived in Paris, aimed at collectors and buyers. The picture is a small typographic ornament, a flourish of foliage, flowers and a bound oval cartouche with trailing ribbons above a rule and a single letter A, a decorative device a designer might borrow for dividers, headers or vignettes.
