Verkehrte Welt
Verkehrte Welt is a German broadside of 1790, a sheet of small hand-coloured woodcut scenes printed to show a topsy-turvy world where people and animals reverse their usual roles. The grid of rectangular cells, each with a short caption strip beneath, offers a designer a model for comic-like sequences and naive folk-print colouring, with flat blue, red and ochre fills against cream paper.
