Die Mohrenwäsche
Die Mohrenwäsche is a German comic picture story by Fritz Steub, published in 1876 in Munich for a general readership. Its hand-coloured page of small framed vignettes, each with a German caption, shows a Black figure being scrubbed and tested in various scenes, with a central panel captioned DER ... MANN; a designer could draw on its tidy grid of captioned panels and its flat, bold colour blocking.
