Solitvdo, sive vitae foeminarvm anachoritarvm
Solitvdo, sive vitae foeminarvm anachoritarvm is a 1606 series of engraved plates by Thomas de Leu, published without a named publisher, showing lives of female hermits for a devotional readership. The plates are finely cross-hatched black-and-white engravings, with small figures set in woodland, caves and hermitage huts, and a designer might take their dense hatching and layered landscape depth as a model for detailed monochrome line work.
