Ex libris van het Französisches Seminarium te Berlijn 1772

This 1772 engraving by Daniel Nikolaus Chodowiecki depicts two figures tending to a garden of young trees. The scene likely symbolizes the growth of knowledge, as the text at the bottom reads "Bibliotheque du Seminare." This work is an *ex libris*, a bookplate, meant to be pasted into books to identify their owner. This particular bookplate belonged to the French Seminary in Berlin. The small, delicate scale of the work highlights the importance of careful tending to knowledge and its growth.