Quelques mots sur la gravure au millésime de 1418
This is a French treatise of 1846 on early engraving, published in Brussels by Van Dale and written by Charles de Brou, aimed at scholars and print historians. Its plates are numbered pages of pen-and-ink figure studies of medieval women in long gowns, veils, and crowns, plus a few saints and seated figures with halos, drawn in fine parallel hatching on cream paper. A designer could take from them the drapery folds, layered headdresses, and gestures of Gothic costume for period-styled work.
