Der Christmorgen : Erzählungen für die Jugend ; mit vier colorirten Bildern
A German children's storybook of 1863 by Therese Messerer, published by Gebrüder Scheitlin, with stories for young readers and four hand-coloured plates. The pictures show mid-nineteenth-century German childhood scenes: a winter gift-giving with toys and a bearded father, boys with a toy cart and a lamb, a snowball fight with soldiers, and children riding a camel at a fair. A designer could draw on their soft watercolour tints, crisp outlines and warm, sentimental domestic detail.
