Am Meeresufer
Am Meeresufer is an 1850 German sheet of coastal and seafaring scenes, published in a numbered series after drawings by Wilhelm Lichtenheld and Nikolaus Knilling for a general German readership. The page is a grid of small wood-engraved vignettes showing shorelines, beached wooden boats, fishermen, and rigged sailing vessels, with the scenes drawn in plain, documentary detail. A designer could take the simple layout of many small framed views, and the rough, weathered forms of hulls and nets as reference for nautical or maritime motifs.
