Mélanges sur les beaux-arts
A French book of miscellaneous writings on the fine arts by Nicolas Ponce, published in Paris by the bookseller Leblanc in 1826 and aimed at readers interested in art. The single picture is a title-page vignette: a classical bust of Minerva framed by laurel branches, with painters' tools, a palette, brushes, a compass and a column-and-pediment drawing arranged around it, and the word ARTS on a scroll below. A designer could take from it a compact emblem model for arranging tools and symbols symmetrically around a central figure.
