Lvx clavstri, La lvmiere dv cloistre
Lvx clavstri is a 1646 emblem book of etched plates by Jacques Callot, published in Paris by François Langlois for a learned and devotional audience concerned with Carthusian monastic life. The pictures are small, delicate etchings of a traveller, birds, trees, rocks and flowering plants in open landscapes, each set in a shallow field with distant towns, and they offer a designer restrained line work and sparse, airy compositions to borrow for spacing and small vignettes.
