Der Russe und der Bär
A German picture-story book of 1895 by Franz Bonn and Lothar Meggendorfer, published by Braun & Schneider and aimed at children as a humorous picture book. Its pages show a bear trying to reach honey in a hollow tree, with a stone swinging on a rope and short rhymed German verses printed beneath each scene. A designer could take the simple sequence of hand-coloured panels, the framing of the action from a single tree and a dark hollow, and the rhyming caption blocks set under the images.
