Genrebilder
A sheet of four hand-coloured genre scenes, dated 1840 and titled Genrebilder, printed for a general German-speaking audience of the period. The four small framed vignettes show rural and domestic life: a shepherd with a dog and flock, two men conversing under a tree, a gentleman with a dog and a woman with a basket on a country path, and a boy riding a donkey beside a seated figure. A designer could take the simple outlined figures, flat watercolour washes and loose landscape settings as a model for naive folk-style illustration.
