Bilder aus der Geschichte Lothringens : mit der Ansicht des Metzer Kathedrale
Bilder aus der Geschichte Lothringens is a popular German history booklet by Ferdinand Schmidt, published in 1890 by the Nordwestdeutscher Volksschriften-Verlag in Bremen for general readers. Its pictures are black-and-white wood engravings in a sober, period style: an ornate title cartouche with a central allegorical group and an eagle below, and a detailed street-level view of the Gothic cathedral of Metz with its tall spire and rooftops. A designer could take the cartouche's symmetrical framing, the eagle motif, and the architectural line work as models for historical ephemera.
