Samuel Dilbaum, Death of Sultan Armurat III.
 
Date Description Source Reference
1595 A.D. Four bell tents and one pavilion. 

The roof of the bell tent in the foreground is cut off by the border, the valance consists of scalloping with a circle in the centre of each section, no pole, guy ropes or pegs visible. 

Second bell tent, apex cut off, valance consists of a line of little squares joined together, the pole is shown. 

The remaining two bell tents have pointed apexes, the one in front has a valance similar to the first tent. 

The pavilion has up-turned crescents at either apex, panel definition on roof and walls and scalloped valance.

Samuel Dilbaum, Active in Augsburg, 1555 - 1615. 

No. 1. Death of Sultan Armurat III 3rd January 1595 at Constantinople and the Execution of the nineteen brothers of his successor, Sultan Mahomet, upon the latter’s command. Nuremberg (GM. 7807/1373).

Strauss, W.L., The German Single-leaf Woodcut 1550 - 1600, Volume 1, New York, 1975, p. 174.


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