Bilder aus Indien
A German picture book of 1856 by August Schrader, published by Naundorf, presenting scenes of colonial India for a general readership. The four hand-coloured lithographs show a European man in a blue coat and a woman in a boat beside palms and dark-skinned attendants, a tense confrontation between a man in a dark coat and two hatted men before uniformed soldiers, a bedside scene with a pale woman under pink drapes, and a European in a blue coat pinning a figure on the forest floor. A designer could take the flat, crisp colour blocking, the bright blue and pink accents against soft brown shading, and the theatrical staging of figures against plain backgrounds.
