Histoire naturelle de la montagne de Saint-Pierre de Maestricht
Histoire naturelle de la montagne de Saint-Pierre de Maestricht is a natural history of fossils from the Saint-Pierre hill near Maastricht, written by Barthélemy Faujas de Saint-Fond and published in 1798. Its engraved plates show fossil shells, sponges and bones drawn in fine line with dense hatching and soft shading on plain stone matrices. A designer could take from them the precise, textured linework of 18th-century scientific engraving and the way specimens are isolated on blank plates with numbered figures.
