Source
Source: Hans Ulrich Franck, Knight in Armor, etching, 1643. Online available from Wikimedia Commons, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hans_Ulrich_Franck_Der_geharnischte_Reiter.jpg
Abstract
This etching is part of a series of twenty-five images by the German Baroque artist Hans Ulrich Franck (1603-75). The series depicts the horrors of the Thirty Years War. This particular image shows a knight in armor chasing down three unarmed people who are trying to escape a town that has been plundered and set on fire (right background).
Hans Ulrich Franck, Knight in Armor (1643)
Recommended Citation
Hans Ulrich Franck, Knight in Armor (1643),
published in: German History in Documents and Images,
<https://germanhistorydocs.org/en/from-the-reformations-to-the-thirty-years-war-1500-1648/ghdi:image-3358>
[April 22, 2025].