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| Title | Bilderbuch zum nutzen und vergnügen der jugend (vol. unknown, plate XX) |
| Alternate Title | Porte-feuille instructif et amusant pour la jeunesse
Instructive and amusing pictures for youth |
| Author | Bertuch, F.J. (Friedrich Justin), 1747-1822 |
| Publisher | Unknown
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| Publisher Location | Unknown |
| Publication Date | c. 1801-1807? |
| Printer | Unknown
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| Illustrator | Unknown
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| Image Production Process | Intaglio prints--engravings
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| Notes | Illustrated with hand colored intaglio prints.
Series contains illustrations and short, scientific explanations about various animals, plants, flowers, fruits, minerals, costumes, antiquities, and other objects to instruct and amuse children. Each volume has an index in the back.
The German text is printed on the recto of each page and faces the plates. The French text is printed on the versos.
This plate depicts butterflies from Surinam ("Farfalle del Surinam"). |
| Contextual Notes | Bertuch was born in Weimar, Germany. He studied both theology and law before returning to Weimar to establish a publishing business. His most "purposive" work was his "Bilderbuch fur Kinder" or "Children's Picture Book" which ran from 1790 to 1830. Many of the 1,185 copper-plate engravings were drawn by the faculty and students of Bertuch's Drawing School which he had set up in 1774. According to Bertuch, pictures should be "beautiful and correct" portrayals of not only the common but the unfamiliar because "everyday things would bore a child." He also felt that the pages shouldn't be too crowded and the text shouldn't be too "scholarly." Although the arrangement of topics seems random, Bertuch specifically placed them in this order to hold the reader's attention. |
| Subjects (LCSH) | Natural history--Juvenile literature |
| Category | Natural sciences
Encyclopedias
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| Language | German
French |
| Digital Collection | Children's Historical Literature Collection |
| Digital ID Number | CHL0764 |
| Repository | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections Division |
| Repository Collection | Children's Historical Literature Collection |
| Physical Description | [1] unnumbered leaf; illustrated: 24 x 19 cm. |
| Digital Reproduction Information | Scanned from original book at 400-600 dpi in TIFF format using a ScanMaker 6800, resized and enhanced using Adobe Photoshop, and imported as JPEG2000 using Contentdm's software JPEG2000 Extension. 2008. |
| Exhibit Checklist | Exhibit checklist 12.1 |
