Weibliche Beschäftigungen höherer Stände. Weibliche Beschäftigungen niederer Stände
A single hand-coloured German sheet from 1830, titled Weibliche Beschäftigungen höherer und niederer Stände, showing women's occupations by social rank in two grids of small framed scenes. The upper grid depicts leisured pursuits of the upper classes, such as reading, music and drawing, while the lower grid shows labouring women of the lower classes at farm, household and market tasks. A designer could take the tidy grid of captioned vignettes and the contrast in costume and setting between ranks as a model for infographic or instructional layouts.
