Das Schiff
Das Schiff is an 1853 German picture book of ship scenes, credited to Karl Christian Koehler, whose subject list points to sailing ships and a life course. Its four hand-coloured wood engravings show a full-rigged ship under sail at harbour, a rigged vessel in a boarding action, a wrecked ship on rocks in a storm, and a ship frozen among ice floes with dogs on the ice. A designer might borrow the lively, hand-tinted maritime storytelling and the contrast between calm sea, combat, storm and polar scenes.
