Oiseaux de Proie
Oiseaux de Proie is an 1890 German-language sheet of bird and insect illustrations, a Bilderbogen or picture sheet for teaching natural history to schoolchildren. Its many small labelled plates show raptors, owls and songbirds beside insects, each captioned in German. Designers might take its tightly packed, naturalistic colour plates on a cream ground, with terse printed labels, as a model for field-guide style layouts.
