Die Amphibien
Die Amphibien is a late eighteenth-century German natural history book of amphibians, made by Gottlieb Tobias Wilhelm and published in 1794 by the Engelbrechtische Kunsthandlung. Its hand-coloured plates show frogs, a toad, a turtle and a fish in plain, close views against pale ground. A designer could take its crisp, naturalistic colour and the tidy scientific layout of specimens with numbered captions.
