Lob der Narrheit
Lob der Narrheit is Gottlieb Wilhelm Becker's German 1780 edition of Erasmus's satire In Praise of Folly, printed by Johann Jacob Thurneysen for a German-reading audience. The four pictures are small woodcut-style figures of fools and beggars in loose robes, with hatched shading and plain ground lines. A designer could take from them a compact vocabulary of costume types and gestures for caricature, character sketches, or period-styled satire.
