Des Menschen Erdenwallen
A German picture book from 1853 by Anton Muttenthaler, presenting the course of human life as a continuous frieze of small figures in period dress. The pictures show a procession of people across the stages of life, from a wedding and a christening to a funeral with clergy and a draped coffin. Designers might take its narrow horizontal bands, dense figure groupings and dark-ground black-and-white contrast as a model for a timeline or sequential layout.
