The heart of the news sheet. The engraver wrote names straight into the picture, which is how we know who is who: Altstetter Rhat und Kayserliche Richter over the seated men on the left (the Old Town council and the emperor’s judges), Graf Schlick by the kneeling man, Wenzel von Budowitz Director on the edge of the scaffold, and Nathaniel Vodnansky by the gallows on the right.
Look for the town hall’s clock on the tower, the drummers in the front, and the riders who kept the crowd back. The home page walks through the scene letter by letter.
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