Tableaux peints par M. Court : exposés au profit de la caisse de secours de l'association des artistes peintres, sculpteurs, architectes et dessinateurs
A Paris exhibition catalogue of paintings by Joseph Désiré Court, issued in 1859 by J. Claye to raise funds for the relief fund of the Paris association of painters, sculptors, architects and draughtsmen. The single plate is an engraved plan of ancient Rome, with the city's street grid, temples, baths and forum drawn in fine black line on a cream page. A designer could take from it the dense, labelled architectural cartography of nineteenth-century antiquarian plates, useful for map textures and classical ground plans.
