Inside Out Library · Explore

uvres diverses concernant les arts

Falconet, Etienne, 1716-1791, Naturalis historia. Book 34-35. French. Selections, Levesque, P. Ch, Didot, Pierre, 1761-1853, Jombert, Alexandre, b. 1749 · 1787 · A Paris : Chez Didot fils : Jombert jeune, libraire ... · 1 picture

A 1787 Paris collection of writings on the arts, gathering essays by sculptor Etienne Falconet with selections from Pliny's Natural History, Books 34-35, issued by the Didot and Jombert firms for readers of art and sculpture. The single picture is a small woodcut tailpiece of a feather and sprig of leaves with berries, a restrained ornament a designer could adapt for dividers, bullets, or vignette borders in period-style layouts.

Art · Sculpture · Painting

Internet Archive · Getty Research Institute · Public domain (published before 1931) · More from this library