Trägheit und Arbeitsamkeit : Belehrendes Beispiel für die Jugend
A hand-coloured German children's moral tale, 'Trägheit und Arbeitsamkeit' (Idleness and Industry), published in 1840 by Verlag von F. Fechner with illustrations by Victor Adam and F. Regner, written for boys as an instructive example. The four plates show schoolboys in a yard, a classroom with a master and a boy misbehaving, a schoolroom scene with a desk and inkwell, and a pair of young men walking with a woman in a red dress beside a cross. Its soft pastel washes, plain staging and clear figure groupings suit a designer studying early nineteenth-century narrative vignettes and how colour was added by hand to lithographs.
