Römische Studien
Römische Studien is an 1806 art-historical treatise by Carl Ludwig Fernow, published in Zürich by H. Gessner for scholars and readers of German aesthetics. Its three pictures are technical diagrams: interlocking concentric arc bands in a geometric figure, paired banded ovals with lettered points and small hatched squares, and a line of musical notation with Italian text set beneath the staff. A designer could take from them the rhythm of repeated curved bands, the precision of lettered construction diagrams, and the pairing of music notation with lyric text.
