Outlines to Buerger's ballads : Leonora, the song of the brave man, and the Parson's daughter of Taubenhayn
Outline engravings by Moritz Retzsch, published in Leipzig in 1840, illustrating three ballads by Gottfried August Bürger for an audience of art students and print collectors. The single plate shows a kneeling woman in a flowing gown clasped by a companion beneath a large tree, with a rider, a distant tower and a path behind them. A designer could take its clean contour line, open white ground and sparse shading as a model for minimal line illustration.
