Cosmos
Cosmos is a Portuguese illustrated periodical printed in Lisbon in 1907 by Typographia Adolpho de Mendonça, covering arts and modern civilization for a general readership. Its pictures range from printed ornamental borders and cartouches with a female bust to a line-engraved scene of two boys talking in a street and a grainy photograph of men on a flat-decked boat with a flag. A designer could draw on the cast-metal border strips and symmetrical scroll frames for decorative page furniture, and on the sober engraved figure style for narrative vignettes.
