Museo della Reale Accademia di Mantova
A catalogue of the antiquities collection of the Royal Virgilian Academy in Mantua, published in 1837 by Giovanni Labus and colleagues for scholars and collectors. The plates show Greek and Roman funerary reliefs, a marble portrait head, and a Latin tombstone inscription, drawn as engravings with clear modelling of stone surfaces. A designer could take from them the carved relief layout of figures inside a shallow architectural frame, and the lettered tablet with its pedimented top and bold serif capitals.
