Histoire ecclésiastique.
Histoire ecclésiastique is a French church history printed in Paris in 1738 by Jean Mariette, the publisher, for a learned Catholic readership, with the author Claude-Pierre Goujet credited. The two plates are engraved: the first is an ornate cartouche framing a crowned shield with fleurs-de-lis beside a desk and bookshelves, and the second shows a kneeling priest at a lectern in a chapel while attackers and onlookers crowd the scene, with a signed engraver's credit below. A designer might take the baroque scrollwork frame and the dense, crowded staging of the second plate as models for historical composition.
