Michael Manger, The Siege of Maastricht.

 
Date Description Source Reference
1579 A.D. Nine bell tents, three pavilions and one wedge tent. 

Left. 

Bell tent, ball apex, spiral lines from apex, plus circles and wobbly lines. 

Pavilion, alternate panels of different shades. 

Six bell tents and two pavilions with very little detail. 

Right. 

Part of a bell tent, with a scalloped valance with line decoration and bottom edge pegs. 

The wedge tent appears to have a wooden frame. 

The other bell tents only has part of the wall showing.

Michael Manger, Active Augsburg, 1569 - 1604.
No. 5. The Siege of Maastricht, 1579. The Spanish under the Duke of Parma laid siege to the city on 9 March and captured it on the 1 July... Augsburg (SSB), London (1870 d.2 - 12, without text).
Strauss, W.L., The German Single-leaf Woodcut 1550 - 1600, Volume 2, New York, 1975, p. 668.


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