Die sieben Schwaben
A hand-coloured German picture sheet from 1887 by Eduard Ille, titled Die sieben Schwaben, a comic narrative of the Seven Swabians told in several framed scenes for a general popular audience. The four panels show the seven men in ragged clothing and tall hats, staggering, brawling and tumbling through village streets with dogs and bystanders, rendered in bright flat colour with short verse captions below each scene, giving a designer a clear model for sequential storytelling and lively crowd action.
