Kapitein Goedkind c. 1902

Pellerin & Cie made this print called Kapitein Goedkind, using some kind of printmaking technique, probably lithography, with added color. The whole thing looks like a comic strip, telling a story in little boxes. I imagine them, Pellerin and his colleagues, setting up the printing stones, one for each color, lining them up with the main drawing in black. Each block of color carefully placed – yellow pants here, a green jacket there. It's folksy but also very professional. I bet they made a lot of these, telling stories over and over again for probably not a lot of money. Each impression is nearly identical to the last, but not quite, and sometimes the charm is in the variations that happen in a print shop. What would it be like to see the whole run of these? The slight misalignments or over-inkings? I bet those imperfections would tell us even more about the image.