Nouvelle relation de la Gaspesie, : qui contient les murs & la religion des sauvages Gaspesiens Porte-Croix, adorateurs du soleil, & d'autres peuples de l'Amerique Septentrionale, dit [sic] le Canada
A 1692 French account by the missionary Chrestien Le Clercq, printed in Paris and sold in Lyon, describing the customs and religion of the Micmac people of Gaspesia in North America for a French reading public. The two pictures are small decorative printer's ornaments: a large woodcut initial M beside spaced capitals spelling MADAM, and a horizontal woodcut strip of two winged putti with a column and a mirror. A designer might take from them the economy of early modern book ornament, with its engraved initial letterforms and classical cherub motifs.
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