Ein hüpsch alt Lied, Von der Schlacht der dreyen Granwen Bündten
A 1585 Swiss printed broadsheet song sheet, probably published by Samuel Apiarius, recording a battle song about the Three Leagues of Graubünden for a popular readership. Its single woodcut shows a dense melee of pikemen and halberdiers, crowded into the frame with bodies, spears and banners overlapping, and falling figures in the foreground. A designer could take from it the energy of crowded, interlocking figure groups and the rough, high-contrast texture of early woodcut line.
