Maaßlieben : Erzählungen für die Jugend
A children's storybook of moral tales for young readers, written by Leopold Chimani and published in 1845 by the Verlag der Kunsthandlung H. F. Müller, likely in German-speaking Central Europe. The hand-coloured lithographs show domestic scenes, a bedchamber intrigue, a captive taken by armed men, and a richly dressed courtier in an elegant interior. A designer could take from them the stiff, theatrical staging and bright flat colour typical of mid-nineteenth-century moral picture books.
