Bilder für Geist und Herz; oder Unterhaltungen zur Bildung und Belehrung für Kinder beiderlei Geschlechts
An 1832 German children's picture book titled Bilder für Geist und Herz, published by Taubert and credited to Auguste Kühn, Ernst Wilhelm Straßberger, Georg Emanuel Opiz and Johann Gottlieb Böttger, meant to educate and entertain children of both sexes. Its hand-coloured copperplate-style scenes show genteel domestic moments, rustic courtship, a mourner at a memorial with a wreath, and a monk aiding a fallen knight, giving designers period costume, garden settings and sentimental gesture to draw on.




