Dovze fables de flevves ov fontaines : avec la description pour la peinture, & les epigrammes
A 1585 Paris book of twelve fables about rivers and fountains by Pontus de Tyard (1521-1605), printed by Jean Richer, with descriptions for painters and epigrams. The pictures here are small woodcut ornaments: a decorative initial letter, a foliate border strip with fruit and a central mask, and a cartouche with the initials I and R flanked by fanciful creatures. A designer might borrow the scrolling foliage, fruit clusters and grotesque masks as period ornament for frames, headers or dividers.
