Ein schön New Lied/ Von Wilhelm Thell
A 1633 German broadside ballad, the Ein schön New Lied about Wilhelm Tell, printed by Georg Hamberger I and attributed to Hieronymus Muheim for popular readers. The single woodcut shows an archer aiming a crossbow at a figure beside a tree, with armed men in tall hats and a mountain landscape behind, and the bottom line reads 'Gedruckt im Jahr 1633'. A designer could take from it the compact narrative staging of a legendary scene, with figures arranged in a shallow frame and simple hatched lines suited to bold, folk-style graphics.
