Recueil D'Antiquités, Egyptiennes, Etrusques, Grecques Et Romaines
Recueil d'Antiquités is an 1761 antiquarian catalogue compiled by Anne Claude Philippe de Caylus, covering Egyptian, Etruscan, Greek and Roman objects for scholars and collectors. Its engraved plates show gems, intaglios, reliefs, rings and small figures drawn in oval and rectangular frames with numbered captions. A designer might take the disciplined oval medallion layout and the fine cross-hatched line work used to render carved stone and classical figures.
