L'antiquité expliquée et représentée en figures ...
Bernard de Montfaucon's 1719 Paris compendium L'antiquité expliquée, a scholarly survey of Greco-Roman antiquities for learned readers, here shown through engraved plates of ancient reliefs. The pictures reproduce carved and sculpted scenes of warships with rowers, armoured fighters and sea battles, drawn in fine parallel-line engraving with plain page borders, which suggests a designer might borrow the clean hatching and classical narrative friezes for historical or nautical graphics.
