The royal politician represented in one hundred emblems
A 1700 London edition of Diego de Saavedra Fajardo's political emblem book, translated by James Astry for an audience of rulers and readers of political science. Each plate is an engraved oval cartouche with a Latin motto banner and a small scene in a Baroque scroll frame, with a page number in the corner. A designer could take the compact framed-medallion format and its ornamental scrollwork as a model for labels, badges, or seals.
