Inventaire général des richesses d'art de la France
Inventaire général des richesses d'art de la France is a French government art inventory published in Paris by E. Plon in 1876 under the Ministry of Public Instruction, cataloguing the nation's artworks for scholars and officials. Its two pictures are a bookplate-style emblem of an oak tree above a shield marked H.P. with a bee and the motto LABOR OMNIA VINCIT IMPROBUS, and the same emblem printed on a title page beneath the heading PARIS. A designer might take from them the ribbon-banner motto layout, the crisp black-and-white line engraving, and the heraldic shield centred under an oak crown.
