Johann Samuel Hallens, Professors der Historie bei dem Königlichen Preussischen Kadettenchore in Berlin, Werkstäte der heutigen Künste, oder, Die neue Kunsthistorie : mit Kupfern und Vignetten
Johann Samuel Halle's 1761 German treatise on the crafts and industrial arts, printed in Brandenburg and Leipzig for cadets and general readers, with copper plates and vignettes by engraver Johann David Schleuen. The four pictures are ornamental woodcut headpieces and initials built from rococo scrollwork, fronds, pedestals and plinths, with one showing a small landscape with a house and tree inside the scrollwork. A designer could take from them the asymmetric C-scroll, acanthus-like foliage and the drop-cap letter treatment typical of mid-eighteenth-century German book decoration.
