Wissembourg is a small town in Alsace where, in the second half of the 19th century, a cluster of printers produced some of the most vivid popular imagery in France. The work was aimed at ordinary buyers, printed in bold flat color on large sheets, and covered everything from fairy tales to military scenes to saints' lives. It was folk art by industrial means, and the best examples hold up as graphic objects a century and a half later. The pieces shown here are period originals from that tradition.
