Matthias Scheits als Schilderer des Hamburger Lebens, 1650-1700
A 1899 art-historical monograph by Alfred Lichtwark, published by the Kunsthalle zu Hamburg, studying the painter Matthias Scheits and his depictions of seventeenth-century Hamburg life. The plates are reproductions of Scheits's genre scenes, shown rotated on the page, with figures in street, tavern and domestic settings. A designer might take from them the compositional layout of crowded period genre scenes, with figures grouped around a doorway, table or open landscape.
