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News traveled quickly in the early modern era, and printed accounts of the most recent international disasters fueled this fascination. Book and print collectors could experience these incidents safely at home with novel, interactive broadsheets with liftable flaps. The most famous grouping showed the 1618 rockslide that completely destroyed the Graubünden mining district of Plurs, near Switzerland. Inspired by Zurich printer Johann Hardmeyer’s 1618 publication, in 1619, Strasbourg and Nuremberg publishers Jacob van der Heyden and Johann Philipp Walch produced their own. Such tactile additions helped viewers literally grasp the extent of the wreckage while they perused the letterpress describing the newsworthy event. This article examines these unruly printed landscapes, their published afterlives, and their relationship to existing landscape modes. |
