Der heroische wilde Mann : das ist, Ein neüw Liedt, wie die mannhaffte Leut in dem Zehen Grichten Pundt in alter hoher Raetia durch Gottes Hülff mit ihren Brüglen die Spanische und Leopoldische auss dem Landt geschlagen haben : in der Weiss: Wilhelm bin ich der Telle etc
A 1622 German broadside song sheet of uncertain publisher, printed to commemorate the Grisons people of the Ten Jurisdictions in old Raetia driving out Spanish and Leopoldian forces with their cudgels, sung to the tune of Wilhelm Tell. The single woodcut on its title area shows a wild man, or wood man, brandishing a club over a fallen figure against a rocky landscape. A designer could draw on its bold black-line woodcut contrast, the heavy hatched shading of the rocks, and the stocky, mythic figure of the wild man as a folk emblem.
