Inventaire général des richesses d'art de la France
A French government inventory of the nation's art treasures, issued by the Ministry of Public Instruction and published in Paris by E. Plon in 1876 for scholars and collectors of French art. The single picture is a printer's or owner's emblem: an oak tree above a shield bearing the initials H.P, a bee, and a scroll reading LABOR OMNIA VINCIT IMPROBUS. A designer might borrow its compact symmetrical layout of tree, shield and ribbon banner as a model for a heraldic mark or bookplate.
