Design for gunsmiths: Frieze with central head

Engraving with a design for gunsmiths, made up of a frieze with a central head, created by P.C. Daubigny in 1655. The design is made up of a roundel, in the center, with the head of a bearded, long-haired man, his head crowned with a wreath of laurel, and a cape tied around his neck. The roundel is framed by scrolling leaves, and flanked to the sides by two tritons, wearing helmets with leaves and holding scepters on their hands, their lower bodies made up of foliage, which gets lost among the floral motifs that make up the background. Two legs emerge below the torsos of these creatures, suggesting that, rather than tritons, they might be a sphinx and a centaur: the legs on the left are endowed with feline claws, and the legs on the right with horse hoofs. Two cornucopias mark the lower angles of the print, with scrolling acanthus leaves growing on the sides.