Hasen und Hunde-Theater
A German picture sheet titled Hasen und Hunde-Theater, drawn by Eduard Ille and published in 1879, presenting a comic sequence of animal characters for a general audience. The pictures show rows of anthropomorphic hares and hounds in costume, performing in small captioned scenes with verse beneath each frame; a designer could draw on the strip layout, the dressed animal figures, and the period engraved line work with its dense captions.
