J.-F. Blondel et son oeuvre
A monograph on the eighteenth-century French architect Jacques-François Blondel, written by Auguste Prost and printed at Metz in 1860 for readers of architectural history. Its one picture is a plan drawn in ink and grey wash, labelled 'Etat des lieux, avant 1754' and 'Ville', showing a dense urban site with a central building block, courtyards and surrounding streets. A designer might take from it the hatched and tonal treatment of a measured ground plan, with its clear lettering and keyed reference marks.
