E. Harburger Album
An 1882 album of humorous pictorial pages by the artist Edmund Harburger (1846-1906), drawn for German readers and held by the Getty Research Institute. Each page carries a single rotated sketch of genre figures in a domestic or street setting, with a short German caption printed beneath it, and the pen-and-ink line work is loose, quick and expressive. A designer could take from it the economical gesture of figures and the way a small caption sits under an image.
