Premier mémoire sur les antiquités chrétiennes : peintures des catacombes
A scholarly plate-book published in Paris by the Imprimerie Royale in 1836, written by the archaeologist Raoul Rochette, who studied early Christian antiquities and catacomb paintings in Italy for a learned readership. Its lithographed plates show carved and modelled sculptural fragments and small Roman objects such as lamps, a vessel, and a seated figure pair, drawn in soft graphite tones on cream paper with numbered plate labels, offering a designer studies of classical form, drapery, and relief decoration.
