Neueste ABC-Fibel
An 1845 German alphabet primer (Neueste ABC-Fibel) published by Oehmigke und Riemschneider, presumably for children learning to read. Each hand-coloured woodcut panel pairs a rhyming German verse with a soldier scene: Napoleonic-era cavalry, hussars on horseback, drummers and fifers, and artillerymen with cannon. A designer might take the bold flat colour, naive figure poses, and simple framed-panel layout as a model for folk-style military illustration.
