Turkish cannoneer

from Hans Weigel's 'Habitus Praecipuorum Populorum ... das ist Trachtenbuch, Nuremburg, 1577'

'PRAEFECTUS TORMENTORUM'

Plate 199: A Turkish cannoneer; whole-length figure walking to left; carrying a matchpole in his right hand; wearing a floppy hat with feathers at the back

'CXCIX.
Der Büchsenmeister./
Der Büchsenmeister ihr geleich/ Die umbgehen mir der Schwartzen Kunst/
Find man nicht viel im Römischn Reich/ Und mit and'rer geschwindigkeit sonst.'

Plate 199: A Turkish cannoneer; whole-length figure walking to left; carrying a matchpole in his right hand; wearing a floppy hat with feathers at the back

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