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Kleine Gemählde, Reminiszenzen und abgebrochne Gedanken

Hess, David, 1770-1843 · 1802 · Zürich : Bey Orell Füssli und Compagnie · 17 pictures

Kleine Gemählde, Reminiszenzen und abgebrochne Gedanken is a small German-language collection of sketches and reflections published in Zürich in 1802 by David Hess, a Swiss writer and engraver, for a cultured reading public. Its pictures are small round vignettes of quiet woodland scenes, pools, a grotto and a solitary figure in white, drawn in fine etched lines with dense shadowed foliage that a designer could borrow for framed circular motifs or mood-driven landscape vignettes.

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