Figure 84

Title-page of Winckelmann’s Kunst des Alterhums: Dresden

From Könnecke’s Bilderatlas zur Geschichte der deutschen Nationalliteratur (facsimile), Deutsches Textarchiv (scan)

1764

Such an aesthetic writer as Winckelmann allowed his Geschichte der Kunst des Alterthums to appear (at Dresden in 1764) in a very hideous and typical German characters.

See chapter 12