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Tillius poenitens, das ist: Tyllische Buβ und darauff erfolgete Absolution / nach allen dreyen Paepstischen Stuecken / als der Rew / Beicht und Gnugthuung / gethan und empfangan / nach erlittener Leipzischen Niderlag
[Nuremberg : H.B., 1631.]
etching, engraving, and letterpress
plate mark: 14 1/4 x 10 3/4 in. (362 x 275 mm.); image: 4 5/8 x 10 3/4 in. (119 x 275 mm.)
Peel 0119
Notes
Watermark: unknown.
Two columns of verse under print.
See also Peel 0072.
Two columns of verse under print.
See also Peel 0072.
Provenance
Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.
Summary
The subject of this print is Johann Tzerclaes, Count of Tilly: arch-villain to the protestant side during the thirty years war. The print refers particularly to his defeat at Leipzig in 1631.
Associated names
Peel, Robert, 1788-1850 former owner.
Bibliography
Kunzle, David. History of the Comic Strip, I, 1973, p. 76 & 439.
Classification
Department
Century prints
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