Das Murmelthier : eine unterhaltende Erzählung für die liebe Jugend : mit einem illuminirten Kupfer
Das Murmelthier is an 1832 German-language children's story by Lorenz Lang, issued through the Egli'sche Buchhandlung for young readers and held by the Swiss children's media institute SIKJM. The three hand-coloured copperplate illustrations show a girl beside a small chapel in a forest, a boy climbing a tree while others watch, and a man in a blue coat at a log cabin with a kneeling boy, with a village and church in the distance. A designer could take from them the soft, muted hand-tinted palette and the naive scenic staging of early nineteenth-century Swiss-German juvenile printing.
