Catechisme des partisans, ov, Resolvtions theologiqves, touchant l'imposition, leuées & employ des finances ...
A 1649 Paris catechism by the Carmelite Dom Pierre de Saint-Joseph, published by Cardin Besongne, written as a theological treatise on taxation and royal finances during the Fronde for partisans of the Parlement. The single picture is a printer's ornament: a woodcut of a grotesque mask flanked by two winged putti and curling scrollwork, with the design balanced symmetrically around a central face. A designer could borrow its symmetrical grotesque mask and scrolled-bracket structure for an emblem or crest.
