Dictionnaire des monogrammes, chif[f]res, lettres initiales, logogryphes, rébus, &c.: sous lesquels les plus célébres peintres graveurs & dessinateurs ont dessiné leurs noms

Christ, Johann Friedrich, Sellius, Gottfried [Übers.] · 1750 · 23 pictures

A French dictionary of artists' monograms, cyphers, initials, logogriphs and rebuses, compiled by Johann Friedrich Christ and translated by Gottfried Sellius, published in 1750 and held by Heidelberg University Library. Its pictures are small woodcut ornamental cartouches of urns, baskets of fruit, scrolls and foliage, whose symmetrical arrangements suggest frame, label and emblem layouts for a designer to adapt.

Cicognara · Parte Prima · Dizionarj e Abecedarj

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