Impressions sur la peinture
A French book on painting by Alfred Stevens, published in Paris in 1886 by the Librairie des bibliophiles for a bibliophile readership. The picture is a printer's device showing an anchor wrapped in a rope, with a banner bearing the Latin motto OCCUPA PORTVM and the initials IOV AVST below. A designer might take from it the compact emblem format, where a motto ribbon, a central symbol and a lettered base form a self-contained mark.
