Odysseus von Ithaka ; Mit vier Abbildungen
An 1880 German children's retelling of the Odyssey, Odysseus von Ithaka, with four illustrations, written by Karl Friedrich Becker and Emilie Weisser and published by Gebrüder Kröner. The two pictures here are plain wood-engraved scenes in a sober academic manner, one showing a cyclops-era struggle with a sharpened stake and figures on a rock, the other a standing hero embracing a seated woman in a curtained room with a view of the sea. A designer could take their dense hatching, strong figure poses and classical draped costume as a reference for historical narrative staging.
