Das Bildnis in Hamburg : als Manuskript gedruckt
A 1898 Hamburg publication by art historian Alfred Lichtwark and the Kunstverein in Hamburg, printed as a manuscript, surveying portraiture in that city. Its halftone plates reproduce seventeenth-century portrait paintings of men in dark dress with white linen collars and cuffs, shot head-and-shoulders or half-length against plain dark grounds. A designer might take from them the restrained tonal contrast of black garments against pale lace, and the formal poses of late Baroque sitters.
