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A plate of eight-figure lithographed sheets titled Der Krieg, issued by the Vienna publisher Trentsensky in 1840 as a military instruction series for soldiers and drill students. The pictures show infantry in shako and greatcoat performing loading, aiming and bayonet drill in repeated poses. A designer could draw on their consistent figure scale, clean outlines and sequence of stances for a set of stylised soldier icons or a drill-manual layout.
