Das Elschen-Buch
Das Elschen-Buch is a German picture book for children, published by Haenel in 1847, with hand-coloured line illustrations of everyday scenes. The four plates show a tree with birds, a snail and beetle among leaves, a cat at a dormer window, and a woman and child beside a horse and cart. A designer could take from them the loose, sketchy pen line with light colour washes and the framed plate layout with page numbers below.
