Antiquities dans la collection de sa Majesté le Roi de Prusse a Sans-Souci
An 18th-century Berlin publication of 1769 issued by Frederic Guillaume Birnstiel, cataloguing classical antiquities in the collection of Frederick II of Prussia at Sanssouci. The pictures are engraved plates of Roman marble busts shown in three-quarter profile on plain pedestals, with the names of the figures lettered beneath each one. A designer could take from them the restrained contour-and-hatching line of 18th-century engraving, with draped togas and carved curly hair rendered in fine parallel strokes.
