[Pamphlets]
A set of pamphlets issued in 1831 by the National Academy of Design, an art institution in New York, collected for its art-school and exhibition public. The first picture is a circular seal showing three seated allegorical figures beneath a classical pediment, ringed by the words National Academy of Design and Instituted Jan. 1828; the second is a library bookplate from the Metropolitan Museum of Art. A designer could take the seal's ring-text layout and neoclassical allegory as a model for emblems and institutional marks.
![Picture 1 of 2 from [Pamphlets] (1831), leaf 1](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/met-p16028coll4_56613-1-1.webp)
![Picture 2 of 2 from [Pamphlets] (1831), leaf 18](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/met-p16028coll4_56613-18-1.webp)