The awake lion, 1615, Den Wackeren Leew (title on object), Allegory on the situation in the Netherlands in the year 1615 with a call to remain vigilant. The Dutch Virgin (Belgica) sits in the Dutch Garden, decorated with flowers and the emblem of the bundle of arrows, with binoculars in one hand and a crane in the other. In the middle Prince Maurits with the Dutch Lion (with eagle's head) armed with a sword on the chain. On the left a ferocious bull behind a fence, behind it a tower with a beacon. In the background, princes (including Archduke Albrecht and Isabella) dance to the pipes and

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