Vier weltliche Schöne neue Lieder
A German songbook of secular songs printed in 1760 by an unidentified publisher, held by the University Library of Bern and likely meant for ordinary readers who sang from it. The single woodcut shows a courting couple framed in a circle of leafy vine, with a man in a tricorn hat offering his arm to a woman in a flowing gown. A designer could take from it the rounded wreath border of foliage and the crisp, hand-cut line work typical of popular eighteenth-century print.
