Specimens of antient sculpture : Ægyptian, Etruscan, Greek, and Roman
Specimens of Antient Sculpture is an 1809 London collection of plates of ancient Egyptian, Etruscan, Greek and Roman carvings, produced by Richard Payne Knight and John Samuel Agar for the Society of Dilettanti and scholars of classical art. Each plate shows a single sculpted head or bust, printed in grey tones on a white page and set in a red-bordered album format. A designer could draw on the calm, classical profiles, idealised hair arrangements and the restrained engraved shading for period-style heads and figure studies.
