Das Lied von der Schlacht beschähen vor Sempach/ in Lucerner biet gelägen
A sixteenth-century German broadside ballad by Hans Halbsuter, printed in 1556 by Samuel Apiario, recounting the Swiss battle at Sempach. The single woodcut shows a helmeted man with a long pole or halberd standing before a hilly landscape with a distant town and church spire. Its bold outlines, hatched shading and plain ground line suggest a direct, economical woodcut manner that a designer could borrow for narrative or historical graphics.
