...Estampas gravadas por Guilherme Francisco Lourenço Debrie
This 1908 Rio de Janeiro catalogue, issued by the Bibliotheca Nacional and compiled by José Zephyrino de Menezes Brum, records engravings by the eighteenth-century Portuguese printmaker Guilherme Francisco Lourenço Debrie for a scholarly and archival audience. The pictures are formal engraved cartouches, heraldic shields, and ornamental frames with scrolls, garlands, and small allegorical figures, useful to designers studying Baroque and Rococo decorative borders and emblem layouts.
