Ludwig, der kleine Auswanderer : eine Erzählung für Kinder und Kinderfreunde
A children's story from 1834 by Christoph von Schmid, published by Fleischhauer und Spohn, illustrated with lithographs for young readers and their friends. The pictures are plain, monochrome scenes of village life: a wedding-like gathering before a half-timbered house, a family at a table in a low-beamed room, figures resting beneath a tree in open country, and a woman and children in an interior. A designer could take their tight, shaded crosshatching and clustered group compositions as a model for narrative vignettes with small, legible figures.
