Jahresbericht
This is an annual report of the Basel public art collection, published by the Öffentliche Kunstsammlung in Basel in 1904 for its patrons and museum audience. Its plates reproduce paintings and prints from the collection, including a Konrat Witz panel of a bearded figure in a fur-trimmed robe beside an armoured knight, a Dürer-style engraving of a seated figure beneath a dated inscription, a heraldic shield bearing a curled ornament, and a Witz priest in white vestments. A designer could draw on the sober tonal halftones, dense crosshatching and period heraldry for historical texture.
