"Mädchenspielzeug" : Blumenbilder
Mädchenspielzeug: Blumenbilder is a German picture book of 1856 by Elise Polko with illustrations by Ludwig Hofmann-Zeitz, published by Bernhard Schlicke, aimed at girls as a toy-like album. Its hand-coloured plates show insects, frogs and a winged figure among flowers, set on pale cream paper with a single framed image per page, giving designers a gentle botanical vocabulary of butterflies, violets and lily-of-the-valley rendered in soft washes and fine outlines.
