Hans Glaser, The Siege of the city of Hof.

 
Date Description Source Reference
1553 A.D. Seventy four bell tents, nineteen pavilions, nine wedge tents and lean to, plus 15 grass huts. 

Most of the tents are too small to provide any detail. 

Three bell tents have thick concentric bands about their roofs, some just have line decoration, guy ropes are evident on the closer tents, ball apexes also appear on the closer tents.

 Hans Glaser. Recorded in Nuremberg 1540 - 1572. 

No. 15. The Siege of the city of Hof from 9 August to 28 September 1553.

 Strauss, W.L., The German Single-leaf Woodcut 1550 - 1600, Volume 1, New York, 1975, p. 344 - 345.

Other works by Hans Wolf Glaser:

Hohenlandsberg Castle, Besieged and taken 8 April 1554

The Siege of Malta by Turks

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