Les principales avantures de l'admirable Don Quichotte, représentées en figures par Coypel, Picart le Romain, et autres habiles maitres : avec les explications des XXXI planches de cette magnifique collection, tirées de l'original espagnol de Miguel de Cervantes
A 1746 French edition of Cervantes's Don Quixote published at The Hague by Pierre de Hondt, with plates after Coypel and others engraved by Le Bas and colleagues and explanations drawn from the Spanish original. The pictures here are decorative ornamental cartouches, scrolled frames with a central urn or lamp motif, printed as engraved tailpieces rather than scenes. A designer might take from them the rococo scrolling acanthus, symmetrical framing and engraved line-shading of 18th-century French ornament.
