Kleines Unterhaltungsbuch : ein angenehmes und nützliches Geschenk für artige Kinder ; mit vier gemalten Kupfern
A small German children's entertainment book printed in 1820 and published by Friedrich Campe, offered as a gift for well-behaved children with four hand-coloured copper engravings. The four pictures show scenes of everyday social life: two men conversing in a plain room, a tense confrontation before a seated crowd, a figure collapsed beneath a tree while children watch, and a lone messenger creeping toward a fortress at dusk. A designer might take the flat, bright colour washes over fine line engraving, and the period costumes of 1820s Germany.
