Reisen auf den griechischen Inseln des ägäischen Meeres
Ludwig Ross's 1843 German travel account of the Greek islands of the Aegean, a work of archaeology and topography published in Germany for scholarly readers. The pictures are small woodcut-style engravings of heraldic shields, with diagonal, checkered, fleur-de-lis and cross charges, plus an inscription panel in Latin lettering; a designer could take from them the stylised geometry of medieval armorial bearings and their hatched patterns.
