Pinacotheca Fvggerorvm S. R. I. Comitvm Ac Baronvm In Khierchperg Et Weissenhorn
A 1754 Latin portrait gallery of counts and barons of the Fugger family, compiled by Dominicus Custos as a collection of engraved likenesses of Habsburg-era nobility. The four plates shown are half-length or three-quarter portraits of aristocratic women in sixteenth-century dress, rendered in fine engraved lines with dense cross-hatching for dark velvet and brocade. A designer might take the stiff ruffs, jewelled chains, and patterned damask textures as period reference for costume, pattern, and formal portrait composition.
