Lebensgeschichte des armen Mannes im Tokenburg, genannt Näbis Uli : ein Volks- und Jugendbuch
A German-language Swiss people's and youth book, published in 1848 by Verlag von Scheitlin und Zollikofer and written by Karl Steiger and Peter Scheitlin, telling the life story of a poor man of the Tokenburg called Näbis Uli. The two engraved plates show a man in a broad-brimmed hat and riding boots standing beside an open door in a cluttered room with a boy and girl, and a boy perched on a fallen tree trunk above a double waterfall in a rocky, wooded gorge. A designer could draw on the contrast between domestic interior scenes and wild landscape, and on the tonal engraving with its dense hatching.
