Denkmäler der Kunst: zur Übersicht ihres Entwicklungs-Ganges von den ersten künstlerischen Versuchen bis zu den Standpunkten der Gegenwart: Denkmäler der modernen Kunst
An 1853 German art-history plate collection, Denkmäler der modernen Kunst, edited by Ernst Guhl and Josef Caspar and compiled by Wilhelm Lübke, issued for students and general readers tracing art from early attempts to the present. The pictures are fine-line engravings of paintings and sculptures, grouped on plates as small framed scenes of religious subjects, portraits and allegorical figures. A designer might take their tidy grid layouts, dense multi-panel compositions and hatched monochrome linework as a model for an organised reference page.
