Anthony Corthoys the Younger, The Siege of Frankfurt.

 
Date Description Source Reference
1586 A.D. Page 140. Left background. 

Seventy bell tents and fifteen pavilions. One section is surrounded by a wall (cloth?) with bell tents situated at various intervals with a much larger bell tent in the centre. 

Page 141. Right background. 

Fourty two bell tents and eleven pavilions.

Anthony Corthoys the Younger, Active at Worms and Frankfurt 1563 - 1590. 

No. 7. 1586. The Siege of Frankfurt (printed in Frankfurt).
Designed by Conrad Faber; cut into wood by Hans Graav, reprinted in 1586 by Anthony Corthoys from ten blocks. Berlin (DDR-864-100).

Strauss, W.L., The German Single-leaf Woodcut 1550 - 1600, Volume 1, New York, 1975, p. 140 & 141.


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