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1590 · durch Valentin Schönigk, auff vnser Frawen Thor · 1 picture

A 1590 German broadside ballad printed by Valentin Schönigk at Augsburg for popular street sale, its title set in heavy blackletter type. The woodcut shows a queen in a canopied bed stabbing or attacking her husband while a figure with a club and a dark doorway stand by, in a crude, bold, high-contrast style a designer could borrow for dramatic narrative panels.

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