Date | Description | Source | Reference |
1592 A.D. | Six bell tents and three pavilions.
The Sultan is probably seated under a seventh bell tent but the details are hidden. Most of the tents have scalloped valances, their roof and wall panels are defined, two of the bell tents have upturned crescents on their apexes. |
Lucas Mayer, Active Nuremberg, 1566 - 1605.
No. 9. News from Neuheuss; The Turkish Danger, 1592. Nuremberg (GM-HB. 252/1341) |
Strauss, W.L., The German Single-leaf Woodcut 1550 - 1600, Volume 2, New York, 1975, p. 704. |
Other works by Lucas Mayer:
Assignation of King Henry III of France by a Dominican monk at St.Cloud
The Comet seen in Transylvania above the Turkish Command Post
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