Samenkörner : Erzählungen für Kinder von acht bis zwölf Jahren ; Mit 9 colorirten Bildern von Prof. Hosemann
Samenkörner is an 1867 German children's storybook of tales for readers aged eight to twelve, written by Margarethe Wulff and published by Winckelmann und Söhne with nine hand-coloured plates by the illustrator Theodor Hosemann. The four pictures shown are small, gently coloured scenes of a rider on horseback meeting a seated young man in a meadow, a pony cart carrying a family, sailors and boys on a crowded ship deck, and two schoolboys talking in a town street. A designer could take from them the soft watercolour palette, tidy figure groupings and clear narrative moments typical of nineteenth-century German juvenile illustration.
