Wilhelm Tell : mit 3 Kupfern
A German-language edition of Wilhelm Tell published in 1802 by Pinther, adapting Schiller's Swiss legend in a version by Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian for a reading public. Its three copper engravings show dramatic group scenes in wooded mountain settings, with figures in tunics and cloaks posed in strong gestures. A designer might take from them the clean, hatched line of late eighteenth-century engraving and the expressive staging of arms raised toward a landscape.
