Handzeichnungen von Hans Holbein dem Jüngeren
A 1908 Berlin catalogue of drawings by Hans Holbein the Younger, edited by Paul Leonhard Ganz, reproducing the German artist's pen, ink and chalk studies for scholars and art historians. The plates are mounted single-image reproductions on purple card, and they show religious scenes, a crowded interior with figures in conversation, and a dated head portrait. A designer might take the compact figure groupings, architectural arches framing scenes, and the crisp hatched line work seen in these early sixteenth-century German drawings.
