Handbuch für die Mahler: oder Auszüge aus Gerards de Lairesse, großem Mahlerbuche nebst dergleichen aus der Idée du Peintre Parfait
A German painters' handbook edited by Tobias Querfurt the Younger, drawing on Gérard de Lairesse's Groot Schilderboek and Félibien and de Piles, published in 1776 for working artists and students of painting. The four pictures are small printed ornamental vignettes of Rococo scrollwork, flowers, and a figure on a cartouche, which a designer could draw on for decorative borders, headpieces, and eighteenth-century ornament.
