Considérations sur les arts du dessin en France : suivies d'un plan d'académie, ou, d'école publique, et d'un systême d'encouragemens
Quatremère de Quincy's 1791 Paris treatise on the visual arts in France, proposing a public art academy and a system of encouragement for artists, printed by Desenne for scholars and政府 reformers of the period. The two pictures are small: a woodcut vignette of a horse-drawn cart beneath a tree beside a seated figure and a row of onlookers, and a plain black ornamental rule dividing the text, offering a designer a compact example of period tailpiece and rule ornament.
