Recueil D'Antiquités, Egyptiennes, Etrusques, Grecques Et Romaines
Recueil d'Antiquités, a 1752 antiquarian catalogue by Anne Claude Philippe de Caylus, held by Heidelberg University Library, that publishes engraved plates of Egyptian, Etruscan, Greek and Roman objects for scholars and collectors. The plates show carved heads, a classical vase, gems and intaglios, a marble foot and a relief of a lion with a figure, each drawn in fine line with numbered parts. A designer could borrow the precise hatching, the oval medallion framing and the numbered plate layout as a model for technical classical illustration.
