print;
broadside
- Museum number
- Y,1.49
- Title
- Object: Der Königl. Maiestät zu Schweden, und Churfürstl. Durchl. zu Sachsen, &c wolbestelte Apotheck, wider den fressenden Wurm.
- Description
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An broadside celebrating the mititary successes of Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden and John George of Saxony as cures for the Empire; with an etching depicting on the left Gustavus Adolphus and John George talking while standing next to a cannon, in the background a fortification with a sign of a pharmacy; on the right a group of soldiers and Jesuit monks, in the middle various soldiers digging a trench; with engraved inscriptions, title and text in threee columns; wanting parts of the very last word. (n.p.: [1632])
- Production date
- 1632
- Dimensions
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Height: 202 millimetres
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Width: 267 millimetres
- Curator's comments
- The broadside depicts trenches, which during the Thirty Years' War were used to approach a besieged city in relative safety. The zig-zag layout of the trenches suggests the movement of worms. The broadside employs this association, comparing the military actions of Gustavus Adolphus and John George with doctors's medications against dangerous tapeworms.
For another, similar broadside of the same subject see BM 1878-7-13-2784.
For another, similar broadside of the same subject see BM 1878-7-13-2784.
Lit.: A. W. Coupe, German illustrated broadsheet in the seventeenth century (Baden-Baden, 1966-67): pl. 78; E. A. Beller, Propaganda in Germany during the Thirty Years War (Princeton, 1940): pl. 10 (with English text); G. Liebe, Der Soldat - Zeitgeschichte in der deutschen Vergangenheit (Leipzig, 1899): pl. 71.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1837 (before)
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- Y,1.49