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1607 · bey Christoffel Mang · 1 picture

A 1607 German pamphlet of three 'true and never before heard of' news reports, printed by Christoffel Mang and held by the Zurich Zentralbibliothek, aimed at a general readership buying cheap street news. Its single woodcut shows a skeleton, Death, lunging into a card game where three seated men are caught mid-play, with a winged devil crowding in at upper right and a window behind; a designer could take from it the economy of black outline woodcut, the strong contrast of dark line on pale paper, and the dense hatching used to model cloth and shadow.

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