The artists of this period were under the necessity of attracting attention by novelty and variety; thus rhyparography, and the lower classes of art, attained the ascendency, and became the characteristic styles of the period.    From Wordnik.com.  [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference

If geography, why not rhyparography?.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800] Reference