Die zwölf Monate II
A hand-coloured German sheet of twelve oval vignettes titled Die zwölf Monate II, dated 1825, showing the labelled months of the year as rural scenes, likely made for a children's or household print series. The six visible oval scenes show seasonal farm work: harvesting, haymaking, threshing, a hunter in a wooded landscape, and a winter gathering with a fir tree. A designer could take from them the compact, repeated oval framing and the naive, lightly tinted rural labour imagery of early nineteenth-century German print.
