(Band 6)
This is a volume from a German illustrated encyclopaedia of the early nineteenth century, produced by Friedrich Justin Bertuch and Carl Bertuch and issued in Weimar in 1807 for a general reading public. The four plates shown are hand-coloured engravings: a stage-like Roman or classical interior with a crowd of robed figures, a dark horse and a grey horse with saddlery beside a woman in a hat, a walled hilltop town with travellers on a path, and a ship on water seen sideways. A designer might draw on their muted watercolour palette, the costume and harness detail, and the way architecture and landscape are framed as small scenes.
