Map of the Netherlands in the shape of the Dutch Lion, 1598, Leo Belgicus (title on object), Map of the Northern and Southern Netherlands in the shape of the Dutch Lion, 1598. With insets with views of the palace in Brussels and the Binnenhof in The Hague. In the frame on either side portraits of Philip II and seven governors from Margaret of Parma to Albrecht. At the bottom, five portraits of William of Orange and the governors appointed by the States General from 1579. At the top right a cartouche decorated with scroll work with an inscription in Latin, at the bottom left inscriptions in

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