Amsterdam; das Rijksmuseum
A 1890 German-language guide to the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, written by art historian Willem Steenhoff and published in Stuttgart by Union Deutsche Verlagsgesellschaft for art-museum visitors and collectors. Its halftone plates reproduce Dutch Golden Age paintings: a pastoral landscape with cattle among ruins, a biblical scene of Christ and the adulteress, a seated woman in a lace ruff, and a man at a window. Designers can draw on their dense tonal shadows, formal gravity, and period costume detailing.
