Hans Mack the Elder, The Defeat of the Turks by the Persians at Vann.

 
Date Description Source Reference
1578 A.D. Four bell tents. 

Bell tent, two tailed banner flies a top a ball and cone apex, alternate shaded roof panels, the valance has an inscription (MVSTAPHA BA...), white walls. 

Bell tent, upturned crescent above ball and cone apex, roof is surrounded in alternate bands in different shades, the walls have many fine lines running downwards. 

Bell tent, upturned crescent, chequer board in different shades on roof. 

Final bell tent, is similar to second tent but with a scalloped valance.

Hans Mack the Elder, Active Nuremburg, 1558 - 1582.
No. 1. The Defeat of the Turks by the Persians at Vann, 18 September 1578. Printed in 1579. Zürich (PAS II 17:7 - 8)
Strauss, W.L., The German Single-leaf Woodcut 1550 - 1600, Volume 2, New York, 1975, p. 654.


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