Disegno del monumento in plastica eretto nella Chiesa di S. Francesco in Modena : in memoria della preservazione di questa città dal cholera-morbus
A lithographed Italian presentation volume from Modena printed in 1840 by the Goldoni lithography house, recording a plastic monument in the church of San Francesco commemorating the city's escape from cholera, made by sculptor Luigi Mainoni. The title page uses elaborate flourished copperplate-style lettering, with swirling calligraphic scrolls framing blackletter and Roman capitals. The pictures show ornamental flourishes and display type that a designer might borrow for decorative headers, while the final plate is a rotated sketch of mourning figures and a building in a landscape, useful for classical allegorical motifs.
