Propyläen
Propyläen is a 1798 art and aesthetics periodical edited by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Heinrich Meyer, published in Tübingen by the J.G. Cotta bookshop for an educated readership interested in classical art. The first plate shows an arched stone vault and a row of stepped masonry above a tree-lined building, all in fine engraved line, while the second shows a classical sculpture group of struggling figures drawn in clean outline. A designer might take from them the restrained, measured linework of late eighteenth-century engraving and its tidy use of framed plates on a cream page.
