Contne de Souabe : la nymphe de la source
A French children's storybook published by Larousse in Paris, catalogued with the date 1800, which is likely a misdate given the printing style of these line illustrations. The four pictures are black-and-white pen-and-ink scenes of medieval-costumed figures: a kneeling woman beside a table, a woman embracing a child in a doorway, a figure bringing food to a sleeper in a canopied bed, and a running servant girl with a French caption. A designer could take their hatched shading and simple staged compositions as a model for vintage storybook spot art.
