Iconologie par figures; ou, Traité complet des allégories, emblêmes, etc. Ouvrage utile aux artistes, aux amateurs, et peuvent servir à l'éducation des jeunes personnes
A four-volume French handbook of allegory and emblems, engraved after Gravelot and Cochin and published by Lattré in Paris in 1791 for artists, collectors, and the instruction of the young. Each plate sets a personified virtue or abstraction — Gravity, Economy, Hope, Eternity — in a ruled frame above a lettered tablet, with attributes like anchors, scythes, columns and radiant suns available as ready symbol vocabulary.
