Le mvse napoletane : egroche
A 1678 Neapolitan printed book by Giambattista Basile, published in Naples at the request of Francesco Massari, with woodcut illustrations of figures in plumed hats and short doublets beside building facades. The pictures are small, crude woodcut blocks set in rows, showing stock characters standing on plinths with a few architectural pieces, and a designer could take from them their simple repeated framing and the expressive stances of the figures.
