Kleines Volk : 20 Charakterzeichnungen von Oscar Pletsch; In Holzschnitt ausgeführt von Professor H. Bürkner
Kleines Volk is a German picture book of twenty character drawings by Oscar Pletsch, cut in wood by Professor H. Bürkner and published in 1870 by the Weidmannsche Buchhandlung in Berlin for a general family readership. The pictures show children in ordinary domestic scenes: a boy at a desk with a book, a girl asleep on a sofa, a boy reading on a settee beside a toddler with a rocking horse. Their dense cross-hatching and clear figure silhouettes suggest a model for interior scenes with tonal shading and naturalistic child poses.
