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Blumenlese aus der Fremde zur Weihnachtsgabe für die deutsche Jugend : mit 6 gut colorirten Kupfern

Grimm, Charlotte · 1855 · Meinhold · 6 pictures

A German Christmas gift book of coloured plates for young readers, compiled by Charlotte Grimm and published by Meinhold in 1855. Its four pictures are hand-coloured lithographs of folk-tale and everyday scenes, with a theatre actor in a plumed helmet, a boy in a green cap perched on a church spire, a shepherd resting under a tree with sheep, and an old man scolding a boy for stolen fruit, offering a designer bold flat colour blocks and clear figure poses in a storybook manner.

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