[Bilderbuch mit Gedichten und Balladen]

Hey, Wilhelm, Zachariae, Justus Friedrich Wilhelm, Lavater, Johann Caspar · 1855 · 61 pictures

A German picture book of poems and ballads by Wilhelm Hey, Justus Friedrich Wilhelm Zachariae and Johann Caspar Lavater, published in 1855 for children. Its hand-coloured woodcut-style plates show travellers on horseback, children with a donkey, soldiers around a cannon and a castle above a river village, framed by ornate borders. A designer could take from these the naive, lightly shaded colour and decorative floral frames of mid-nineteenth-century children's illustration.

Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz · No known copyright restrictions · More from this library