Gustav und Klara als Knabe und Mädchen oder würdige Beschäftigungen guter Kinder bis zum zwölften Lebensjahre : ein Büchlein für Söhne und Töchter des Mittelstandes
A children's instruction book by Hermann Wilhelm Bödecker and Heinrich Schulz, published by Hahn in 1834, written for the sons and daughters of the middle class in German-speaking lands. Its single plate is an engraving of a seated mother reading or teaching beside a window, with a boy kneeling at her knee and a girl leaning in from the right; the open door shows a sunlit landscape. A designer might take its tidy domestic composition, the strong verticals of the door and curtain framing the figures, and the restrained crosshatched line of early nineteenth-century German engraving.
