Ernst und Scherz : Zwanzig Schwarzbilder
Ernst und Scherz is an 1884 German book of twenty silhouette pictures, published in Berlin by Franz Lipperheide, with verses by Heinrich Seidel and silhouettes by Heinrich Braun for a German family audience. The pictures are black cut-paper style silhouettes of children and adults on cream paper, with flowing vine and foliage bases that a designer could borrow for decorative borders, cutouts, or vintage childhood motifs.
