L'antiquité expliquée et représentée en figures ...
Montfaucon's L'antiquité expliquée, published in Paris in 1719 by Florentin Delaulne, is a scholarly archaeology compendium for antiquarians and collectors of classical antiquities. Its engraved plates show ancient oil lamps, each with a round medallion of mythological or everyday figures, drawn as crisp black linework on cream paper with clean outlines and ornamental handles, offering a designer clear models for classical medallion and roundel compositions.
