Zwey hübsche newe Lieder : das erst, Es ist ausserden kein schwerer Leiden etc. : ein ander Lied, Lieblich hat sich gesellet etc
A 1580 German songsheet printed by Samuel Apiarius, held by ZB Zürich, offering two popular secular songs for ordinary singers and households. The single woodcut shows a mounted rider in a hat and cloak on a rearing horse above a strip of small houses, its bold outlines hand-coloured in simple red, green and ochre. A designer could borrow the flat, hand-tinted woodcut vigour and the compact figure-and-landscape vignette framed between two blocks of black-letter text.
