Ein hüpsch alt Lied von der Schlacht der dryen Grauwen Bündten
A sixteenth-century German-language broadside ballad printed in Basel in 1580 by Samuel Apiarius, held by the ZB Zürich, telling of a battle of the Three Grey Leagues and sold to ordinary readers who bought song sheets. One woodcut shows a standing soldier in a plumed hat, holding a long pole-arm and a sword, with a hillside landscape behind him. A designer might take from it the bold outlined woodcut figure, the flat colour washed by hand over black line, and the compact text-and-image layout of early print.
