Was das Kind liebt, gern sieht und treibt : In Bildern zur Anschauung und Unterhaltung
A German picture book titled Was das Kind liebt, gern sieht und treibt, published in 1865 by Verlag von Wilhelm Nitzschke for young children, arranged as hand-coloured plates of small scenes. Its pages group many separate vignettes of children's everyday play, farm animals, toys and nursery objects around a central scene on each sheet, so a designer can take a clear sense of mid-nineteenth-century children's imagery from its tidy, compartmentalised layouts and soft watercolour palette.











