Date | Description | Source | Reference |
1576 A.D. | Six bell tents and seven pavilions.
Most of the bell tents are topped by a triangular banner, a ball apex and an apron, three of the bell tents have the roof panels defined, all of them have two point guy rope attachment and apex guy ropes, on most of them the wall bottom edge guy ropes and pegs can be seen, two of the bell tents in the fourth panel have heraldic shields on the their roofs. The bell tent on panel three and four has a scalloped valance. Panel 2. Pavilion, ball and cone apex, two apex guy ropes on left apex, line decoration on roof, two point guy rope attachment, bottom edge guy ropes and pegs. Pavilion, ball and cone apex, apex guy ropes, panel definition on roof, dots (re-enforcing ?) where guy ropes attach, two point guy rope attachment. Pavilion, ball and cone apex, apex guy ropes, panel definition on roof, dots (re-enforcing ?) where guy ropes attach, two point guy rope attachment, valance decoration under guy ropes, bottom edge guy ropes and pegs, heraldic shield on roof (). Pavilion, ball and cone apex, apex guy ropes, much decorated roof with heraldic shields on roof (), two point guy rope attachment, valance decoration under guy ropes. Panel 3. Pavilion, triangular banner a top oval and cone apex, apex guy ropes, roof panel definition, two heraldic shields on roof (), two point guy rope attachment. Smaller pavilion, triangular banner flies a top oval and cone apex, single apex guy rope, decoration along roof ridge, heraldic shield on roof (), valance decoration, two point guy rope attachment. Panel 4. Pavilion, triangular banner flies a top oval and cone apex, two apex guy ropes per apex, decoration along the roof ridge, panel definition on roof, heraldic shield on roof (), two point guy rope attachment which join up with the next guy rope, valance decoration under guy ropes, bottom edge and guy rope pegs. |
Tobias Stimmer, Schaffhausen 1539 - 1584 Strassburg.
No. 25. The Great Shooting Match at Strassburg in 1576. Brunswick. |
Strauss, W.L., The German Single-leaf Woodcut 1550 - 1600, Volume 3, New York, 1975, p. 1010 - 1011. |
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