Der Kinderfreund
Der Kinderfreund is a German children's primer of animal natural history, compiled by Friedrich Eberhard von Rochow and August Ludwig Hoppenstedt and published in Hanover in 1833 for young readers. Its woodcut pictures show an elephant, a lion, a camel, a hippopotamus, a crocodile and a strange river creature, each drawn in simple outline with hatched shading and set on a short ground line. A designer might take their plain, stiff, naive line quality and the rough texture of the printed shapes for vintage nature-lesson graphics.
