Oeuvres d'Etienne M. Falconet Statuaire: contenant plusieurs écrits relatifs aux beaux arts, dont quelques-uns ont déjà paru, mais fautifs ; d'autres sont nouveaux
A collected edition of writings by the French sculptor Etienne Falconet, published in 1781 and drawn from his essays on the fine arts, offered as a reference for students and scholars of art theory. The single plate is a rococo ornamental cartouche of scrolls, acanthus leaves and foliage engraved in fine black line on a pale ground, showing how eighteenth-century French decorative vocabulary built up from asymmetric C-scrolls and sprouting sprays. A designer could take its flowing, symmetrical-yet-irregular scroll structure as a model for ornamental borders, frames or logo flourishes.
