Iconologie tirée de divers auteurs. Ouvrage utile aux gens de lettres, aux poëtes, aux artistes, & généralement à tous les amateurs des beaux-arts
Jean-Baptiste Boudard's Iconologie, issued at Vienna by Trattner in 1766, is an alphabetical handbook of allegorical figures compiled from earlier authors for writers, poets and artists needing correct attributes. Each entry carries a small etched plate of a single standing or seated personification with her emblem — a lion, an elephant, a spindle, a serpent, a set square — drawn in open parallel hatching that reproduces well at small sizes and suits spot illustration, initials and marginal ornament.
