Denkmäler der Kunst: zur Übersicht ihres Entwicklungs-Ganges von den ersten künstlerischen Versuchen bis zu den Standpunkten der Gegenwart: Die Kunstdenkmäler der Gegenwart
An 1856 German art-history plate book, Denkmäler der Kunst, edited by Ernst Guhl and Josef Caspar with text by Wilhelm Lübke, issued for students and general readers of art history. The pages are grids of sketchy engraved reproductions of monumental figurative works, with the figures often running sideways across the frames. Designers can take from them the crowded, multi-figure compositional layouts of nineteenth-century history painting and the hatched line-engraving texture of the reproductions.
