Deutsches Pracht-Bilder-Buch : Ein Jugendalbum nach Aquarellen von C[arl] Offterdinger

Offterdinger, Carl · 1867 · Julius Hoffmann · 22 pictures

A German children's picture album published in 1867 by Julius Hoffmann, with hand-coloured lithographs after watercolours by Carl Offterdinger. Its scenes of village life, play and harvest suit a designer seeking mid-nineteenth-century German folk costume and domestic genre compositions. The softly graded colour washes, vignette-shaped frames and pale sky backdrops show how period children's book plates framed figures against open landscape.

Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz · No known copyright restrictions · More from this library