Hesione | tragedie | mise en musique
This is a printed libretto-score for an opera, Hesione by André Campra, published in Paris in 1700 by Christophe Ballard. Its pages carry decorative headpieces and tailpieces in a French baroque manner, made for a Parisian audience of music lovers and court circles. The four pictures are ornamental strips of scrolling acanthus leaves, foliage, and framed landscape vignettes in black on a cream ground, useful to a designer for border and panel systems.
