Déclaration du roi, en faveur de l'Académie royale de peinture & de sculpture : donnée à Versailles le 15 mars 1777 : registrée en Parlement le 2 septembre audit an
A royal declaration issued by Louis XVI of France at Versailles in 1777, printed by the Imprimerie royale in Paris, granting favours to the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture and registered with Parliament the same year. The single picture is a horizontal printer's ornament, and a designer could take from it a symmetrical 18th-century French decorative frieze of swags, scrolls and urns for borders or period-style panels.
