Abenteuer eines Freiwilligen : Amerikanische Reise und Kriegsbilder
This is a German-language illustrated adventure narrative, Abenteuer eines Freiwilligen (Adventures of a Volunteer), an American travel and war picture book by Mayne Reid with illustrations by J. Hagelberg and text by Ludwig Pietsch, published in 1861 by Julius Springer for a German readership. The pictures are hand-coloured lithographs with bright, flat colour and loose, theatrical staging: a cloaked rider in a sombre crowd, a soldier reaching across a tree limb over a chasm, and a mounted volunteer with lances on the cover. A designer could draw on their bold, naive colour blocking and dramatic outdoor compositions for period adventure artwork.
