Les sculptures grotesques et symboliques (Rouen et environs)
A late nineteenth-century French study by Jules Adeline, published in Rouen in 1879, cataloguing grotesque and symbolic medieval carvings from Rouen Cathedral and nearby churches for an antiquarian readership. The pictures are plates of carved reliefs drawn in fine pen-and-ink line, with captions naming the portal and choir stalls; a designer might take their dense hatching, framed roundel compositions and distorted human and animal figures as models for ornament.
