Over the course of three years, the “room decorations” Runge initially planned evolved into Romanticism’s most important and complex cycle of prints. He orchestrated the antithetical concepts of day and night, morning and evening, “as in a symphony”. The Times of Day are conceived as framed arabesques both austere and delicate in design, with evocative combinations of climbing and trailing flowers, geniuses, celestial bodies, light, and shadows. Our copies are from the limited first edition of 25 prints.