Ein nüwes lied kürtzlichen gmacht/ darin[n] anzeygt wirt die grusam schlacht/ darinn vil Lüt vm[m]kum[m]en sind/ von Man/ vnd Wyb ouch junge kind/ [et]c : Ist in der wyß/ Ich stůnd an einem morgen/ [et]c

Schorr, Nikolaus · 1564 · [by Sigfrid Apia:] · 1 picture

A 1564 German broadside song sheet, printed in Blackletter type and attributed to Nikolaus Schorr, issued for a popular audience to recount a bloody battle in which many men, women and children died. The single woodcut shows a skeletal figure with a scythe-like weapon striking among fallen people on a battlefield, a grim memento mori image a designer could draw on for dark, macabre or allegorical graphics about death and violence.

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