Zwey ganz Neue Lieder : Das Erste. Ueber die Action so den 5ten Wintermonat im Jahr 1757. bey Roßbach in Sachsen geschehen ...
A German broadside song sheet printed in 1758 by Johann Gottfried Michaelis, recording the Prussian victory at Rossbach in Saxony in 1757 for popular readers. The single picture is a small woodcut tailpiece of a flower basket, with blossoms spilling over the rim and tulip-like buds hanging down the sides, printed in dense black on rough, mottled paper. A designer might take from it the compact, self-contained ornament that fits a narrow text margin or closing rule, and the bold, simplified silhouette typical of eighteenth-century German print decoration.
