Souvenir de l'exposition de M. Dutuit (extrait de sa collection)
A souvenir album from 1869 published in Paris by the Union centrale des beaux-arts appliqués à l'industrie, recording an exhibition of Auguste Dutuit's collection of art, aimed at collectors and art-trade audiences. The plates here are reproductions of woodcuts, etchings and decorative panels, including a crowded Gothic-style procession, a ship-filled harbour print, a roundel-patterned surface with classical medallion heads, and a half-timbered town yard with a well. A designer might take their dense crosshatching, medallion-and-border layouts and architectural staging as models for historicist ornament.
