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This article focuses on the headpiece engravings produced by the Leipzig-based artist Gottlieb Leberecht Crusius for Magnus Gottfried Lichtwer’s philosophical-didactic poem  Das Recht der Vernunft  (1758). An analysis of the designs demonstrates how the visual paratexts generate textual meaning and function as an iconic lens, bringing into focus in new ways the abstract contents of the poem. Developing a complex intermedial interpretation in his vignette series, Crusius invites reader-viewers to take part in a symbolic journey of critical reflection and moral self-improvement. The article establishes that Crusius’s illustrations represent a significant metacritical intervention and expanded the text-interpretative potential of the eighteenth-century German illustrative vignette.

G. L. Crusius’s Visual-Critical Reading of Lichtwer’s Das Recht der Vernunft (1758)