der Herr des Riesengebirges
A German fairy-tale collection published in Leipzig around 1800, drawn from the Riesengebirge folklore tradition and aimed at general readers of tales. Its pictures are fine pen-and-ink wood engravings with loose, hatched shading: a man with a torch among ruined archways, a traveller addressing a seated boy by a fountain, a crowned woman with attendants beneath blossoming trees, and a stooping old man at a cottage door. A designer might take the lively scene staging, the hatched texture, and the use of architecture to frame figures.
