Schäferszenen
A single hand-coloured sheet of 1760 German shepherd scenes, the title Schäferszenen meaning pastoral scenes, presumably issued as a print or pattern sheet for a general audience. The sheet grid holds about twenty small vignettes of shepherds, shepherdesses, sheep, goats, dogs, trees and cottages, each on its own grassy oval. A designer could take from it the repeated framed-vignette layout, the naive pastoral figures and the muted green and ochre palette.
