Le portrait d'un honneste homme
A 1693 French treatise on the ideal gentleman, the Portrait d'un honneste homme, written by the abbé Goussault and printed in Lyon by J. Guerrier for a readership of polite society. Its two pictures are engraved armorial and emblematic headpieces: one shows a dragon-like beast within scrolling foliage flanked by crossed trumpets and drums, the other a coat of arms with stars, chevrons and the mottoes 'In tenebris' and 'Semper eadem', all set in dense acanthus-style scrollwork a designer could adapt for ornamental frames, cartouches or heraldic borders.
