Ein hüpsch nüw Lied unnd waare G'schicht, wie fry der Bär den Krieg hat gricht, der zwischen Genff und Saffoy was ... : Im Thon
This is a 1583 German broadside ballad, the Ein hüpsch nüw Lied, printed by Samuel Apiarius and attributed to Niklaus Schorr, telling a satirical story of bears at war for a popular audience. The two woodcuts show two bears rearing and clawing at each other over a patch of grass, with a crude hand-coloured face and wings ornament below, giving a designer bold, naive woodcut silhouettes and simple hand-tinted colour with rough contour lines.
