Joh. Caspar Füeßlins Geschichte der besten Künstler in der Schweitz: nebst ihren Bildnissen
A 1774 German-language biographical dictionary by Johann Caspar Füssli, compiled for readers interested in Swiss art and artists, with each entry headed by an engraved portrait. The pictures are small oval or framed copperplate bust portraits of eighteenth-century men in wigs and coats, often set in ornamental cartouches with cherubs, garlands, scrolls, and roundel medallions. A designer could take from them the framing devices: oval vignettes, scroll-and-name plaques, and restrained line engraving for period portraiture.
