2-715-102 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Defenestration of Prague, 23 May 1618, (1936). 'Der Fenstersturz in Prag, 23 Mai 1618'. The Second Defenestration of Prague: heated religious meeting in the Prague Castle which resulted in Catholic regents Vilém Slavata of Chlum, Jaroslav Borita of Martinice and their secretary Filip Fabricius being thrown out of a third-floor window after a tirade by Count von Thurn. They survived the 70-foot (21-metre) fall, albeit with severe injuries. From "Bilder Deutscher Geschichte", (Pictures of German History), No.12, cigarette card album. [Cigaretten-Bilderdienst, Altona-Bahrenfeld, Hamburg, Germany, 1936]