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British Museum collection database [via www, Sep. 4 2009]: registration no. 1880,0710.859
Folger bibliographic ID: 241089
Paas, J.R. The German political broadsheet, 1600-1700: vol. 4, p. 112, no. P-974
Folger call number: ART 233- 313.7
Folger holdings ID: 301003
Accession Number: 233313.7

In the top right are four battle scenes in which Frederick I of Bohemia was defeated: the Battle of the White Mountain near Prague, the Battle at Wimpfen, at Darmstadt, and at Höchst. In the right foreground is an allegorical figure of time, and on the left Ernst von Mansfeld, Hans von Obentraut, and Christian II von Braunschweig-Lüneburg-Wolfenbüttel (all wearing upper-body armor and plumed helmets) balancing a large letter Y on a Z and a round sphere, with Frederick standing on top of the Y.--Adapted from the British Museum

General notes

Date from Paas A key to various areas in the image is inscribed in plate after the title, above image Also issued as a broadside with letterpress printed below the image Pro-imperial allegory concerning events in the Bohemian conflict from 1619 to the fall of 1622.--From Paas Also available as a digital reproduction

Mansfeld, Ernst, graf von, 1585-1626 Obentraut, Johann Michael von, 1574-1625 Thirty Years' War, 1618-1648 Campaigns & battles Time Armor Frederick I, King of Bohemia, 1596-1632 Christian, Herzog von Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel, 1599-1626

depiction: Mansfeld, Ernst, graf von, 1585-1626
depiction: Obentraut, Johann Michael von, 1574-1625
depiction: Frederick I, King of Bohemia, 1596-1632
depiction: Christian, Herzog von Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel, 1599-1626