Allerlei in Bildern und Versen
A German picture book of rhyming verses from 1850, titled Allerlei in Bildern und Versen, with hand-coloured lithographs of everyday domestic scenes meant for children. The pictures show a girl in a long dress at a gate, a mother in a feathered bonnet beside a stone urn, a girl with a gold book at a table, and a woman gathering sticks under a tree, drawn in soft colour with plain outlines and cream paper. A designer might take the simple, muted palette of blues, mauves and red shawls, and the compact framing of figure beside a single prop.
