Tableaux tirés de l'Iliade, de l'Odyssée d'Homere et de l'Eneide de Virgile : avec des observations générales sur le costume
Caylus's 1757 Paris book of classical subject tableaux drawn from Homer and Virgil, with notes on costume, printed for an art-minded readership and held by the Getty Research Institute. The four pictures are typographic ornaments: horizontal friezes of acanthus scrolls framing a flower-filled urn, a shield-like cartouche of scrolls and a central cornucopia, and a diamond-shaped arrangement of rosettes and foliage. A designer could draw on their symmetrical, mirrored scroll structures for borders, panels and vignette layouts.
