Magnetismus und Mesmerismus, oder Physische und geistige Kräfte der Natur
A nineteenth-century German treatise on magnetism and mesmerism by Carl Gottfried Wilhelm Vollmer, published in Berlin by Theodor Thiele in 1862 for a general readership interested in hypnosis. Its pictures are sepia and hand-coloured lithographs, many printed sideways, showing genteel figures in crinolines and frock coats in drawing-room and rural scenes. A designer might borrow their period costume, soft tinted lithographic texture and staged gestures of trance-like absorption.
