Hans Sebald Beham,  The Siege of Rhodes.
Date Description Source Reference
1522 A.D. Nine pavilions and seventeen bell tents. 

Bottom left. Bottom edge pegs are visible on most of the tents in the encampment. On the pavilion on the right the rounded end of the pavilion on the right is open rather than a door flap in one of the long sides as in the pavilion next to it. 

Upper left. Bell tent in foreground, large two tailed crescent banner flies above a crown on a ball apex, scale line decoration on roof, line decoration on walls, pole and bottom edge pegs. 

Upper right. Bell tent, lantern apex, line decoration on walls, and the pole is visible.

p. 268. Hans Sebald Beham. G. 289; Pass. 178, Pauli 1113. The Siege of Rhodes 1522. Berlin. Geisberg, M., The German Single-leaf Woodcut: 1500 - 1550, Volume 1, New York, 1974, p. 268 - 275.

Other works by Hans Sebald Beham:

The Siege of Vienna

Entry of Emperor Charles into Munich


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