Der alte Bekannte : Eine Maler-Reise in Bildern
An 1873 German picture book titled Der alte Bekannte, published by Verlag von Alphons Dürr, with illustrations by Oscar Pletsch and text by Friedrich Oldenberg and Carl Hermann Günther, aimed at a family audience of children and parents. Its pictures are fine wood-engraved scenes of domestic village life, with small figures in doorways, gardens and rustic corners, many paired with rhymed verse set beneath, offering a designer compositional ideas for vignettes, doorway framing and storytelling layouts.
