Sittenbüchlein für Kinder : mit 1 Kupfer
A German children's moral primer by Joachim Heinrich Campe, published in 1809 by B. Ph. Bauer, with a single copperplate frontispiece. The oval engraving shows a group of figures in a wooded setting, with a reclining woman in the foreground and a man in a cap reaching toward a bird-like figure at upper left. A designer could take from it the crowded oval composition, the tonal crosshatching of the copper engraving, and the way figures are arranged around a central dramatic gesture.
