Die Linden-Fee : Dramatisirtes Kindermärchen in 6 Bildern
A children's puppet-theatre play, published in Berlin in 1868 by the bookseller Eduard Bloch, with a dramatised fairy tale written by Elisabeth Ebeling and illustrated by Bertha Filhés. The cover shows a toy stage with red curtains and a puppet show for young audiences, while the interior picture shows a costumed scene of a village crowd, a huntsman with a horn and a figure in a green jacket under a linden tree. A designer could take from these hand-coloured lithographs a bold, theatrical framing of a stage with curtains and a proscenium, and the layered crowd and costume detail of mid-nineteenth-century German children's print.
