Die Mutter : eine kindliche Erzählung in 12 Bildern
Die Mutter is a German picture book of 1850, published by Winckelmann, with twelve hand-coloured illustrations and a rhyming verse under each, told as a child's story about a mother's care. The pictures are small, sentimental genre scenes of domestic life, with the mother shown feeding, watching over a cradle, and tending a child in simple interiors. A designer could draw on their restrained period colour, the framed captions in blackletter type, and the tidy compositions of figure, furniture and window.
