Das alte Ordensland : Bilder aus der Geschichte des Deutschen Ordens in Preußen ; mit 4 Illustrationen
An 1889 German illustrated history of the Teutonic Order in Prussia, written by Fedor von Köppen and published by Carl Flemming, aimed at a general German readership interested in the medieval knightly state. Its four wood-engraved plates show knights in armour, a medieval town with a church and gabled houses, and a siege with cannon and banners, with the scenes printed sideways on the scans. A designer could take from them the dense, dramatic crosshatched line style of late nineteenth-century historical book illustration, with its armoured figures and fortified town settings.
