Recueil D'Antiquités, Egyptiennes, Etrusques, Grecques Et Romaines
Recueil d'Antiquités is an 1759 antiquarian catalogue of Egyptian, Etruscan, Greek and Roman objects, compiled by Anne Claude Philippe de Caylus for scholars and collectors of antiquity. Its plates show numbered engraved figures, busts, statuettes, reliefs and small carved objects drawn in fine outline with minimal shading, arranged on the page like specimens. A designer could take from them a clean, systematic layout of isolated figures and ornamental motifs with classical poses and drapery.
