Schneidebilder mit Tieren
A German printed sheet of hand-coloured animal images from 1895, titled Schneidebilder mit Tieren, meaning cutting pictures with animals, apparently made as cut-out material for children. Its two panels each hold a grid of twelve to sixteen small animals, including dogs, sheep, cattle, deer, a squirrel, camels and a horse, each drawn in profile on a plain ground with a thin green baseline. A designer could take the tidy modular grid, the flat colour washes and the simple repeated animal poses as a template for pattern, icon or sticker sets.
