Gustav Weise's Naturgeschichte in Bildern
A German natural history picture book published by Gustav Weise in 1890, with authorship credited to Weise and J. Kißling, and aimed at teaching readers about animals. Its chromolithographed plates arrange several numbered animals on one sheet, each vignette set in a small patch of grass, rock or water against a pale cream ground. A designer could borrow the tidy grid of labelled specimens, the warm muted palette, and the clear silhouettes of mammals from different families.
