Biblische Geschichten des Alten und Neuen Testaments: Denen Jungen Zu leichterer Erlehrnung, Denen Alten Zu frischerer Behaltung, Denen Predigeren Zu geschwinderer Erinnerung, Allen Zum nutzlichen und heiligen Augen-Lust, In Hundert fruchtbaren Blätteren
This 1748 German illustrated Bible, a hundred engraved plates by Joseph Sebastian and Johann Baptist Klauber, was made for young readers, the elderly, and preachers alike as a devotional picture book. Each plate is a dense Rococo cartouche framing several scenes from Old and New Testament stories, with tents, crowds, walled cities, and courtly architecture; a designer might borrow the scrollwork frames and the crowded multi-scene composition layout.
