Die häßliche Balsamine : eine Erzählung
Die häßliche Balsamine is a German-language story by Rosalie Koch, published in Leipzig by Baumgärtner's Buchhandlung in 1847, a small illustrated narrative for a general reading public. Its hand-coloured plates show a bearded man in a rust-orange jacket lifting a stone beside a young woman in a blue dress in a woodland clearing, and a woman with a basket beneath a tree among a group of deer. Designers may take the flat, naive colour, the mossy forest settings and the Biedermeier costume details as period-authentic storybook reference.
