Vrsprung vnd vrsach gegenwertiger Vffrür, Teütscher Nation : Das Lied, mag man singen in bruoder Veiten thon
A 1546 German broadside song sheet titled Vrsprung vnd vrsach gegenwertiger Vffrür, Teütscher Nation, printed by Hans Crafft and issued for popular readers during the Schmalkaldic War. The first picture is a woodcut border with a horse-drawn chariot and a seated rider in ornate framing, while the second shows armoured pikemen and a crowd of soldiers above a verse text block. A designer could take the dense woodcut crosshatching, the decorative border strips, and the tightly packed pike formations as models for political broadside layout.
