Inventaire général des richesses d'art de la France
Inventaire général des richesses d'art de la France is a French government inventory of art treasures, issued by the Ministry of Public Instruction and published by E. Plon in Paris in 1876 for scholars and officials cataloguing national heritage. The single picture is a title-page device: a printed emblem of a tree above a shield bearing the initials H P, flanked by a banner reading 'Omnia vincit' with a scroll motto, set on a grey paper ground with 'Tome troisième' and 'Paris' lettered above and below. A designer might take from it the restrained, centred layout of nineteenth-century French printed emblems and motto banners.
