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Tell, Wilhelm · 1845 · 1 picture

A German broadside sheet of sixteen hand-coloured scenes from the life of the legendary Swiss hero William Tell, printed in 1845 in the manner of popular chapbook pictures for a general readership. The sixteen small framed panels, each with a caption beneath, read like a comic strip, and a designer could borrow their sequential layout, bold flat colour and pared-down figure silhouettes for narrative panels.

Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz · No known copyright restrictions · More from this library