Der gestiefelte Kater
An 1854 German print by Moritz von Schwind, published in Munich, illustrating the fairy tale Der gestiefelte Kater (Puss in Boots) for a general readership. The single sheet packs a row of decorative roundel vignettes across the top above a larger scene of a castle on a hill, a crowd of figures in the foreground, and a tall ornate gate on the right. A designer might draw on its dense, storybook layering of small narrative scenes around a central composition, and on its fine-line hatching for engraved-style detail.
