print;
broadside
- Museum number
- 1871,1209.4794
- Title
- Object: Schwedischer Zug, Das ist: Guter Anfang...
- Description
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A broadside glorifying the triumph of Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden as divinely ordained saviour of German Protestantism; with an etching showing an allegory with Gustavus Adolphus riding in a shell-shaped chariot, pulled by four wild animals, towards a city representing the Empire; with engraved inscriptions and lettering A-Z, letterpress title and text in two columns, and with one horizontal segment and a frame of type ornaments. (n.p.:1632)
- Production date
- 1632
- Dimensions
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Height: 162 millimetres (etching)
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Height: 330 millimetres (printed area)
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Width: 250 millimetres (etching)
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Width: 269 millimetres (printed area)
- Curator's comments
- Lit.: W.A. Coupe, German illustrated broadsheet in the seventeenth century (Baden-Baden, 1966-67): pl. 38; Elisabeth Lang, Friedrich V., Tilly und Gustav Adolf im Flugblatt des Dreissigjährigen Krieges (Austin, 1974): pl. 34.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1871
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1871,1209.4794
