Szenen und Bilder aus der Vorzeit
Szenen und Bilder aus der Vorzeit is a German illustrated book of 1857 by Anton Muttenthaler and Andreas Müller, printed in Munich as a picture collection of scenes from the distant past for a general readership. This sheet is a page of nine small genre vignettes, each in its own framed rectangle, showing domestic interiors, courtship, a family at a table, a child, and a crowd in a timber-framed street. A designer could take from it the compact grid layout, the dense crosshatched engraving that gives period texture, and the staging of costumed figures in everyday settings.
