Frontispiece - Sofia

The frontispiece featured in La Carta del Nauegar Pitoresco is an image of the author writing, with a text excerpt below it. It reads, in Latin, "Pingit Bellotus, modulator carmina Marcus, Alter, et alterius nomen ad affra uehit" by Dar. Var. P. The image itself has a heavy use of crosshatching to provide shadow and depth to the image. The author seems deeply engaged with what he is writing, holding a quill and many pages of paper in his dainty hands. This image is useful to the reader as it gives a portrait of the author and an idea of what his work process was like.