Magnétisme et magnétothérapie / par le Comte de Szapáry.
A mid-nineteenth-century French treatise on animal magnetism and magnetic healing, written by Count Franz Szapáry and published in Paris in 1854 for a general readership interested in mesmerism and spiritualism. Its two plates are ornate, rococo-style decorative frontispiece panels with framed vignettes, and a romantic landscape of a weeping willow over a sea with a sailing ship and a cross-marked tomb. A designer could draw on the dense, symmetrical scrollwork of the first for borders and the moody, melancholy tonal landscape of the second for atmospheric backgrounds.
