Machines et inventions approuvées par l'Académie Royale des Sciences depuis son établissement jusqu'à présent
This is an 1727 Paris collection of machines and inventions approved by the Royal Academy of Sciences, issued by the Académie des Sciences for engineers and mechanics, and catalogued in the Cicognara architecture section. The pictures are small woodcut-style ornamental cartouches and decorative headpieces with scrolling acanthus leaves, swags, fringed drapery and pendant tassels, drawn in dense black line on pale paper, useful to a designer for border, panel and frame motifs in an early eighteenth-century French baroque manner.
