Das Vogelnest : mit 3 Kupfern
A German-language children's picture book, Das Vogelnest, by Mary Elliott, published by A. Asher in 1836 with three copper-plate engravings for young readers. The three pictures are sentimental scenes of children tending caged birds in domestic interiors, with a kneeling child reaching for a cage, a seated woman and two standing figures around a table holding a cage, and a boy reaching toward a birds' nest in a garden beneath a framed window. Their plain line work, period costume and small captioned scenes suggest a designer's reference for early nineteenth-century narrative vignettes.
