Das Alte und Neue Testament in vierundzwanzig Bildern
A German illustrated Bible picture book of 1880 from the St. Johannis-Druckerei publishing house, with twenty-four chromolithographed scenes from the Old and New Testaments, each captioned with a Bible reference and a German verse, likely made for family or Sunday-school reading. Its pictures are bright, flatly coloured narrative tableaux with clear poses, costumed figures and legible gestures, useful to a designer for period religious iconography and for the layout pattern of picture above, title band and verse below.
