Haustiere
A German natural history picture sheet titled Haustiere, dated 1835, showing domestic animals such as dogs, sheep, donkey, horse, pig, cats, rabbit, and poultry. The hand-coloured plates are set against plain cream grounds with small grass patches, a neat catalogue-style arrangement that suggests the pictures were meant for teaching children to name farm and household animals. A designer could take from them the clean, cropped, individually framed presentation of animals as a simple typological set.
