Ein schönes lustiges weltliches Lied genannt der Kühreihen : in einer angenehmen und lustigen Melodie zu singen, zur Ergötzung des Weidmanns und der jungen Gesellen
A German song sheet printed around 1800, the Kühreihen, a secular cowherd's tune meant to be sung for the amusement of herdsmen and young journeymen, with the publisher unidentified. Its single picture is a small rough woodcut of a cow in profile standing on a ground line with grass tufts, printed on warm buff paper. A designer might take its blunt, chunky contour lines and the simple ground-line setting as a model for quick, rustic farm imagery.
