Das Bildnis in Hamburg : als Manuskript gedruckt
Das Bildnis in Hamburg is a 1898 manuscript-style printed study of portraiture in Hamburg, written by art historian Alfred Lichtwark for the Kunstverein in Hamburg and printed in Hamburg. The pictures are halftone reproductions of head-and-shoulders portraits of men in nineteenth-century dress, rendered in soft grey tones with plain backgrounds. A designer might take from them the quiet, formal conventions of period portrait photography and drawing: tight crops, three-quarter poses, and sober dark coats set against pale fields.
