Encyclopédie historique, archéologique, biographique, chronologique et monogrammatique des beaux-arts plastiques, architecture et mosaïque, céramique, sculpture, peinture et gravure
Demmin's 1873 Paris encyclopedia of the plastic arts, architecture, ceramics, sculpture, painting and engraving, compiled by Auguste Demmin for art students, collectors and historians. The four plates shown are engraved reproductions of an ancient spiral ornament, Roman coins with profile portraits, a sixteenth-century Italian bronze-style combat relief, and a medieval woodcut of standing women with inscribed scrolls; a designer might borrow the dense scroll-and-spiral borders and the crowded figure groupings.
