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Wechter, Wilhelm · 1557 · [Samuel Apiarius] · 1 picture

A sixteenth-century German broadsheet song, printed in 1557 and attributed to the poet Wilhelm Wechter of Wimmerden, telling of a campaign against the French crown and the burning of the town of Rambeuile. The title page carries a woodcut of a town in flames under a dark smoke cloud, with a crowd of figures in the foreground, offering a designer a stark, dense model for battle-scene composition in early print.

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