Specht's Tierbilder-Buch
Specht's Tierbilder-Buch is a German children's picture book of animal studies by August Specht, published in 1898. Each plate pairs a chromolithographed animal with a short German verse set in print beside it. The tigers, hedgehog, wolves, giraffe, fox and lion are painted with careful attention to fur texture, striping, and posture, which a designer could draw on for naturalistic animal studies, stripe patterns, or fur rendering.
