Ulrich von Etzenbach: Alexander
A fourteenth-century German verse romance of Alexander the Great by Ulrich von Etzenbach, dated 1322 and preserved as a manuscript in Switzerland. The picture is a rough pen drawing on a parchment-toned page showing a stacked, tower-like structure with a serpent or dragon coiled around it. Its loose, sketchy line and bare ink contours offer a designer a raw, hand-drawn medieval motif for simple emblematic icons.
