Statistique monumentale du département de l'Aube
A monumental survey of architecture in the Aube department of France, compiled by the architect Charles Fichot and published in Paris in 1884 for specialists and antiquarians. The plates show carved Gothic and Renaissance details: a pointed doorway with tracery, a window bay with ornate panelling, a winged figure bracket, and a scrolled corbel with foliage. A designer could draw on their crisp hatched linework and ornamental vocabulary for decorative borders, corbel-shaped motifs, and gothic arch framing.
