Berliner Kinder : Bilder aus der Kaiserstadt
Berliner Kinder is an 1880 German picture book published by Alex. Kiessling, with hand-coloured lithographic scenes of Berlin street trades and figures by Gustav Annemüller, aimed at young readers. The pages pair each scene with a rhyming verse in black-letter type, set inside a ruled double border. For designers, the figures are good references for period costume, posture and comic caricature, with the flat colour washes and loose pencil-like shading showing how 19th-century German illustrators handled outline and tone.
