Maskirte Akademie der Thiere
A single lithographic sheet from Munich's Bilderbogen series, published in 1860 by Eduard Ille, titled Maskirte Akademie der Thiere, and aimed at a general German popular audience. The page holds rows of small caricature scenes in which animals wear human clothing and masks, acting out social situations. A designer could draw on its dense grid of comic vignettes, its stiff engraved line, and the way each figure's costume signals character.
