Belustigungen der Dorfjugend : ein Bilderbuch für erwachsenen Knaben ; mit 12 colorirten Bildern
Belustigungen der Dorfjugend is a German picture book of 1847 by Reinhard Francke, published by Winter, aimed at adult boys and containing twelve hand-coloured plates. The four pictures show village boys at play: pushing a small cart, a stick-and-hole game, marching in paper hats with poles, and a boy with a feathered hat in a walled lane. Their soft watercolour tints, loose outlines and quiet rural settings suggest a designer's reference for naive, hand-coloured genre scenes of childhood.
