Funfzehn Radirungen aus den alten und neuen Kinderliedern
A German set of fifteen etchings from 1849, published by Mayer, illustrating old and new children's songs by Georg Scherer, Wilhelm von Kaulbach, Eugen Napoleon Neureuther and Carl Hermann Schmolze. The plates are fine line etchings: a decorative title border with putti and a central song-text tablet, a crowded toy-seller's stall with children gathered around, a mother seated beside a cradle, and a sleeping child under a canopy framed by vines and a rooster. Designers can take from them the dense, storytelling crowd scenes and the ornamental frames built from scrolls, foliage and arches.
