 Wechtlin's twelve prints were the largest individual contribution to the corpus of about sixty German chiaroscuro woodcuts from the early 16th century - the technique was probably invented by Burgkmair in 1508.Unlike Burgkmair's often frankly garish colours, Wechtlin's colour woodcuts use only two blocks and muted colours.In both the Cleveland and Cincinnati impressions of the "Knight and Halberdier" there are black line blocks and a "greyish-blue" tone block; other tone blocks are described as "blue-grey" ("Orpheus" and the Skull) and "grey-green" ("Pyramus and Thisbe").