Parerga et ornamenta, caelo expressa, ad P. Virgilii Maronis opera illustranda
A Latin book of decorative ornaments and vignettes issued in London in 1812, produced by the artist Johann Dominik Fiorillo and the scholar Christian Gottlob Heyne as classical illustration for readers of Virgil. The pictures are fine engraved line drawings of classical scenes: draped figures beside columns, a sacrificial fire with cattle, a caryatid-like dancing woman between sphinxes, and a woman with a globe; a designer might borrow their dense hatching and neoclassical figure poses for antique-style motifs.
