Der Jahrmarkt : bewegliche Bilder für artige Kinder
A German children's picture book from 1860, titled Der Jahrmarkt, presenting hand-coloured scenes of a fairground for well-behaved children. The four pictures show a crowded fair square with puppet theatre and street performers, a circus stage with musicians and a ringmaster, a menagerie-style ring with a dog, monkey and pony, and an acrobatic act with a tightrope and a clown. A designer could take the bright flat colours, rounded framing and crowded, busy compositions of mid-nineteenth-century popular print.
