Über die Metallspiegel der Etrusker
Gerhard's 1838 Berlin Academy study of Etruscan metal mirrors, written by the German archaeologist Eduard Gerhard for scholars of ancient art. The plates are engraved line drawings of hand mirrors, their backs and their incised figure scenes. A designer could take from them the tight circular compositions, the figures fitted into round frames, and the leaf-and-vine borders around each mirror.
