Emiliens Rosengärtchen, oder Frühlingsabende der Mädchen in Eichenhain : Lese- und Bilderbuch für gute Töchter ; Mit Kupfern
A German reading and picture book for good girls, published in 1840 by the Mäcken lithographic firm and credited to Karl Berger, Paul Brugier and Johann Michael Voltz. The four plates are fine black-and-white line prints in an old engraved style, showing domestic and courtly scenes such as a cloaked lady and a seated youth in a stone hall, a woman with a child before a thatched cottage, and a castle view behind a couple in a garden. A designer could take their clear, uncluttered linework and simple staging of figures in architectural settings as a model for period illustration.
