ckiused the burin at all, itwas only to a very Fig. 124. Daniel Chodowiecki: Illustra- tion to Lessings Minna von Barnhelm. Small extent. So long as he was occupiedwith quite small plates his work invariably had an appear-ance of freshness and truth, and his drawing was correctand natural; his art… … DANIEL CHODOWIECKI 281 recalling the popular broad-sheets depicting the samepersons. In his illustrations (fig. 124) to Lessings Minna vonBarnhelm (1769) Chodowiecki first entered on the themeof middle-class genre which was so eminently adapted to hisgenius. The success of these illustrations was…
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