Standard Bearer and Drummer

Sebald Beham

1544 · Engraving · Drawings and Prints

As the inscription along the right indicates, Beham created this print as a memorial to the Peasants' War that had occurred nineteen years earlier, a series of violent revolts in which 100,000 peasants were killed. While the Beham brothers often depicted peasants in a satirical way, these two, identified as "Farmer Concz" and "Klos Swineherd," are quite finely rendered.

Artist

Sebald Beham

Date

1544

Medium

Engraving

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

Gift of Felix M. Warburg and his family, 1941