[Portable siege ladder] – Historic Print
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(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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This rare historic print captures [Portable siege ladder] in remarkable detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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This woodcut shows a portable siege ladder, a device meant to be carried to a wall and set against it so that attackers could climb over fortifications. The record dates it to 1475 and files it under military art and siege warfare, so it likely comes from one of the illustrated military treatises that circulated in Europe in the decades after printing spread. Those books gave commanders and engineers a visual vocabulary for machines that had long been built by craftsmen in the field. The print is worth studying for its clear outline of the ladder's construction, which reflects how medieval and early Renaissance armies approached the old problem of taking a walled town.
| Medium | 1 print : woodcut. |
|---|---|
| Notes | [1475] |
| Subjects | Military art & science--1470-1480. Ladders--1470-1480. Siege warfare--1470-1480. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,279 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-186700 |
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